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Edinburgh in 1866, when Mr. Car- lyle was installed Eector of the University. In 1872 Professor Tyn- dall went on a lecturing tour in the United States ; in the course of it he delivered thirty-five lectures, which returned him $23,100. After paying exx)enses, a fund of over $13,000 remained, and this, before leaving for Europe, the Professor placed in the hands of a committee, who were authorized "to expend the interest in aid of students who devote themselves to original re- search." On the occasion of his receiving the honorary degree of D.CL. from the University of Ox- ford, June 18, 1873, Dr. Heurtley, Margaret Professor of Divinity, pro- tested against the proceeding, on the ground that Professor Tyndall " had signalized himself by writing against and denying the credibility of miracles and the efficacy of prayer, thus contravening the whole tenor of that book, which, with its open page, inscribed * Dominus Uluminatio mea,' the University still bears as her device, and there- fore still professes to acknowledge as her guide.'' Professor Tyndall presided at the annual meeting of the British Association held at Belfast, in Aug., 1874. He accepted the presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute for the year 1877. For some years Professor Tyndall was Scientific Adviser to the Board of Trade and to the Lighthouse Authorities, but he re- signed those offices in May, 1883, when he also withdrew from the special committee appointed by the Board of Trade to investigate the subject of the best iUuminants for lighthouses. He has written ** The Glaciers of the Alps,*' 1860 ; *' Moun- taineering," 1861 ; " A Vacation Tonr," 1862 ; " Heat considered as a Mode of Motion," 1863 ; " On BAdiation : the ' Bede ' Lecture, May 16, 1865," pubUshed in 1865 i a volume on "Sound," 4th edit., 1883 J " Faraday as a Discoverer ; "
 * Fragments of Science ; " " Notes

on Electricity," 1870; ''.Notes on Light," 1871 ; " Hours of Exercise in the Alps," 1871 ; " The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers," 1872 ; "Address delivered before the British Association as- sembled at Belfast, with Additions and a Preface," 1874 ; " Fragments of Science: a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews," 5th edit., 1876 ; and " Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in relation to Putrefaction and Infec- tion," 1881. He married, Feb. 29, 1876, Louisa Claud Hamilton, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton.

UHRICH, Joseph Alexis, a French general of German extrac- tion, born at Pfalsbur^, Feb. 15, 1802, was educated at the Military College of St. Cyr, whence he passed as Sub-Lieutenant into the 3rd Light Infantry. In this capacity he shared in the campaign of 1823 in Spain. In Sept., 1831, he became a Captain, and was transferred to the African army, and remained in that country for some twenty years. In '1841 he became Major, and in 1848 Colonel of the 3rd Regiment, and on Jan. 3, 1852, attained the rank of Brigadier-General. In this capacity he commanded in the Cri- mean War with g^eat distinction, and was during the campaign pro- moted to be a General of Division. He also received several Orders. During the Italian campaign of 1859, he commanded an infantry division, and was in 1862 named a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. In 1867 ho was transferred to the Army Reserve, or, in other words, pensioned. At the outbreak of the war between France and Prussia in 1870, he resumed active service, undertaking the command of a division of the Alsace and Lor- raine troops. After the battle of Wdrth, he became Commandant of