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of the milk supplied to the London workhouses. Mr. Wanklyn is the author of four text books for Chem- ists and Medical Officers of Health, viz.: a ** Treatise on Water Ana- lysis;" a "Treatise on Milk Ana- lysis," 1873 ; a " Treatise on Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa,** 1874 ; " Bread Analysis,** 1881, the last-named book being the joint production of Mr. W. J. Cooper and himself. In 1869, he was elected a corresponding member of the Boyal Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

WAED, John Quincy Adams, bom at Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830. His boyhood was passed on a farm, but he early manifested an artistic genius. He studied medi- cine, acquired a thorough knowledge of anatomy, and in 1850 entered the studio of H. K. Brown, an eminent sculptor, where he remained six years. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he made the models of several of his best works. He spent some months in the Far West, studying the characteristics of the Indians in order to perfect the model for his '* Indian Hunter.** The clay model was finished in 186^4, and was purchased for the Central Park in New York, for which it was cast in bronze. Several other of his bronze statues are in the Park, among which are •* A Private of the Seventh Regiment,*' " Fitz Greene Halleek,** and" Shak- spere,** the latter being among the liist of modern statues. Among his other works are " The Good Sama- ritan,** " Freedman ; '* a monument to commemorate the discovery of ancesthetics ; a statue of Commodore Perry ; and many bas- reliefs, groups, and medallions. From 1874 to 1877 he wad President of the National Academy of Design.

WATERHOUSE, Alfred, A.E.A., was born July 19, 1830, at Liverpool. He studied architecture in Manchester, where he commenced to practise his profession, after tra- velling chiefly in Italy. His first considerable work was the Manches-

ter Assize Courts, the result of a hardly contested competition. In this city he has also been the archi- tect of the County Gaol, the Owens College, and the Town Hall, the result of another competition. In Liverpool his works comprise the London and North-Western Hotels, and the Seamen*8 Orphanage; in London the Natural History Mu- seums, the Prudential Assurance Company's Offices in Holbom, the New University Club, the New St. Paul's Schools, and the Central In- stitution of the City and Guilds of London Institute, Exhibition Road, BaUiol College at Oxford, and Caius and Pembroke at Cambridge, have been partly rebuilt from his designs. Among mansions may be mentioned Heythrop, Oxon, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, and Iwerne Minster, Dor- set, as his most conspicuous works. Mr. Waterhouse was honoured by receiving a Grand Prize for arclii- tecture at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and a "Eappel" at that of 1878. He is a member of the Royal and Imperial Academy of Vienna, and he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, Jan. 16, 1878. He has chiefly designed his build- ings in the Gothic and Romanesque styles, adapting them to modern purposes.

W ATKIN,SiR Edwabd William, Bart., M.P., is the eldest son of the late Mr. Absalom Watkin, who was born in London, but settled in Manchester, in 1800, and carried on business as a merchant in that town, from 1809 till his death in 1861. His son, Mr. Edward William Wat- kin, was first employed in his father's counting-house (with whom he ultimately became a partner), until the year 18^, when he was appointed to the secretaryship of the Trent Valley Railway. This led to his joining the London and North- western Co., and to his various positions as General Manager, and afterwards as a Director and Chair- man of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, and