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STODDAED— STOKES.

STODDAED, Bichabd Hbnbt, was born at Hingham, Mass., in July, 1825. His family removed, in 1835, to New York, where he learned the trade of an iron-moulder. In 1848 he began to write for pe- riodicals both in prose and verse. In 1853 he received an appointment in the New York Custom-House, which he held until 1870, at the same time continuing his literary labours. He has published : "Foot- prints," 1849; "Poems," 1852; " Songs of Summer," 1857 ; "Town and Country," 1857; "Life of Alexander von Humboldt," 1859 ; "Loves and Heroines of the Poets," I860; "The King's Bell," 1863: "The Story of Little Red Eiding Hood," 186 i ; " Under Green Leaves," 1865 j " Late English Poets," 1865 ; " Melodies and Mad- rigals, mostly from the Old English Poets," 1865; "The Children in the Wood," 1866; "Putnam, the Brave," 1869; "The Book of the East, and other Poems," 1871 ; new and enlarged editions of "Gris- wold's Poets of America," 1873; " Female Poets of America," 1874 ; " Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century," 1875; "Memoir of Edgar Allen Poe," 1875; and "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," 1882. He has also edited a series of dainty works, entitled " Brie - k - Brae Series " (1874-75); and" Sans Souci Series," and more recently a number of volumes relating to English literary history and memorabilia. He was, for a short time after leaving the Custom House, City Librarian, and is now on the editorial staff of the New York Mail and Express, His wife, Elizabeth D. B. Stoddabd, bom at Mattapoiset, Massachusetts, in 1823, is aJso a contributor to periodicals, and has published three novels: "The Morgesons," 1862; "Two Men," 1865; and "Temple House," 1867.
 * Adventures in Fairy-Land," 1853 ;

STOKES, Gbobob Gabstbl, F.E.S., bomAug. 13, 1819, at Ski«en,

CO. SUgo, was educated at Dr.Wall's school, in Dublin, at the Bristol College, and at Pembroke CoU^e, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1841, as Senior Wrangler, and was elected to a Fellowship. In 1849 he was appointed to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathe- matics, and in 1852 was awarded the Eumford Medal by the Soyal Society (of which he had been chosen a member a few months before), in recognition of his ser- vices to the cause of science by his discovery of the change in the re- frangibility of light. An account of this discovery will be found in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1852. Mr. Stokes, who was chosen one of the Secretaries to the Boyal Society in 1854, and was Pre- sident of the British Association at the meeting at Exeter in 1869, has contributed te the Transactions of several learned societies, and has delivered professorial lectures at Cambridge, and at the Museum of Practical Gfeolc^y in L<mdon. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on Professor Stokes by the University of Edinburgh, Aug. 1, 1871.

STOKES, Colonel Sib John^ K.C.B., son of the Eev. John Stokes, Vicar of Cobham, Kent, was born there in 1825, and received his edu- cation at the Proprietai^ School, Eochester, and at the Military Aca- demy, Woolwich. He entered the Eoyal Engineers as Second Lieu- tenant in 1843. He saw active ser- vice in the Caffre Wars of 1846-7 and 1850-1, for which he has the medal, and received the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief on two oc- casions. In 1851 he was appointed to act as Deputy Adjutant-General of the Field Force in Caffraria, and assisted in organizing levies among the Hottentots, and was otherwise engaged. In 1855 he was appointed CUef Engineer to the Tur^sh Con- tingent, and raised and org^anized the Engineer Corps and Train of that force. In the winter of 1855-6 he was employed in fortifying