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TOLLAND— TONGE.

Touch : Green-Boom at Private Theatricals," 1880 ; " Here We Go Sound the Mulberry Bush" and "II Dolce far Niente," 1881; "The March Past/' "Prince Ar- thur and Hubert," and " Welcome as Flowers in Spring," 1882 ; and "Tender Thoughts," 1883. Mr. Teames was elected a Boyal Aca- demician, June 19, 1878.

YOLLAND, CoL. William, E.E., P.R.S., youngest surviving son of the late John Tolland, Esq., agent to the first Earl of Morley, born in 1810, was admitted into the Boyal Military Academy at Woolwich, and obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut, of Boyal Engineers in 1828. He rose by successive steps to the regimental rank of Lieut.-Col. in 1855, and was made a Colonel in the Army, by brevet, in 1868. He was employed in Canada from 1830 till 1834r5, and joined the Ordnance Survey under the sin)er^ intendence of the late Major-Gen. (then Col.) Colly, B.E., at the Ord- nance Map Office, at the Tower of London, in 1838, on which duty he continued to be employed till 1854, and was engaged as the Executive Officer at the Tower and at South- ampton, from 1840 till 1852, when he was transferred to the Phoenix Park, Dublin, and to Enniskillen in 1853. While acting on the Ord- nance Survey, he was entrusted with the preparation for publication of the Astronomical Observations made with Bamsden's zenith sector, which instrument was unf ortimately destroyed by the fire in the Tower in 1841, and the compilation of "An Account of the Measurement of the Lough Foyle Base in the North of Ireland during the years 1827-8-9." Afterwards he superintended the publication of the "Astronomical Observations made with Airy's Zenith Sector between the years 1842 and 1850, for the Determina- tion of the Latitudes of various Trigonometrical Stations in Great Britain and Ireland." At the re- quest of Col. Harness, C.B., B.E.,

then Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications, he supplied the article on " Geodesy," which forma part of the "Course of Mathematics for the Boyal Militaiy Academy." In 1854 he was appointed one of the Inspectors of Bailways under the Board of Trade, and in 1856 was selected as the engineer member (jointly with Col. W. J. Smith, BJl., and the Bev. W. C. Lake) of the commission appointed by the Secretary of State for War, to con- sider the best mode of reorganizing the system for training officers for the scientific coips, in order " that patronage should be altogether abolished, and that admission to those corps should be obtained only by an open competiii|^ examina- tion." The commission visited France, Prussia, Austria, and Sar- dinia, and the results of their in- quiries and their recommendations were embodied in an elaborate Be- port, which was printed by order of the House of Commons.

TONGE, Chablbs Duks, M.A., son of the Bev. Charles Tonge^ Lower Master of Eton College, born in Nov., 1812, was educated at Eton, and at Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1835, taking a first-class degree. He has compiled " English and Greek Lexicon," 1849 ; '* Gradus ad Pamassum, with Dictionary of Epithets," 1850 ; " School Phraseo- logical EngHsh-Latin and Latin- English Dictionary," two -ptartB, 1855-6; "History of England to the Peace of ParU, 1856," in 1857, 2nd edition, 1871 ; short parallel lives of Epaminondas, Gustavus Adolphus, Philip, and Frederick the Great, in imitation of Plutarch's method, 1858; "Life of the Duke of Wellington," 1860 ; a school edition of Virgil, with English notes, 1861 ; " History of the Bri- tish Navy," 1863; " ^iglish-Greek Lexicon, abrjdged," 1864; "His- tory of France under the Bour- bons, A.D. 1589-1830," in 1866; "Three Centuries of Modern His- tory," 1872; and "History of he