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and Consulting Physician to the East London Hospital for Diseases of Children. Since the year 1864 he has edited, in conjunction with Dr. Dow^> Mr. Hutchinson, and Mr. Maunder, a valuable series, still in progress, of " Clinical Lec- tures and Reports, by the Medi- cal and Surgical Staff of the Lon- don Hospit^." His own profes- sional writings are : — " On the Ana- tomy of the Lungs," in Dr. H. Davies's work on " Physical Diag- nosis J " "On Tubercular Sputum " "Evidences of the Arrestment of Phthisis ; " " Mucous Disease of the Colon J " Lectures on "The Ana- tomy of the Lung," " Pneumonia," and " The States of Lung compre- hended under the term Phthisis Pulmonalis " (delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1866) ; " Fibroid Phthisis " (in vol. i. of the Transactions of the Clinical Society) j and " The Work of Fibrinous Pleurisies in the Evolu- tion of Phthisis" (in the Medical Mirror for 1870).

CLARK, The Rev. Jambs, M.A., Ph.D., was born in Yorkshire, in 1836, but is descended from an Essex family. He was educated in the University of London, gpraduat- ing in arts in 1857, and afterwards proceeded to the University of Gettingen, where he won his doctorate with distinction. In 1860 he published a brochure in apolo-

fetics, entitied "The Spurious Ithics of Sceptical Philosophy." In 1862-63 he prepared for holy orders in Queen's College, Birming- ham, where he also studied botany and chemistry. In 1863 he was ordained deacon in the chapel of Queen's College, Cambridge, and in 1864 was or&ined a priest. Dr. Clark has pursued with success original investigations in Aryan, Semitic, and Turanian philology, and has prepared for the press " An Aryan and Extra- Aryan Com- parative Grammar." In 1866 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and

Ireland. The same year he pub- lished "The Church as Established in its Relations with Dissent," and "The Epochs of Language," in which the theory of Professors Max Mailer and Benloew, concerning linguistic development, is met with counter-arguments. In 1867 Dr. Clark, after some Latin correspon- dence with the University of Gdttingen, received a rescript from Professor Dr. Lotze, then Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, in the name of all the deans of faculties, authorizing, imder the seal of the university, the revival of academical hoods. In 1869 he competed success- fully for the prize of fifty guineas offered by the Anglican and Inter- national Christian Moral Science Association for the best work on "Christian Ethics," and was nomi- nated a member of council of the association. In 1870 Dr. Clark's work, entitled " What is Christian Moral Science ? or, the Nature and Province of Christian Ethics de- fined and determined," was pub- lished in "Science and the Gospel." Dr. Clark is also an extensive con- tributor of articles to the English periodical press. He has likewise contributed to the German press, and written several pamphlets in the German language. In 1869, after having held various important pa- rochifd cures. Dr. Clark was nomi- nated British Chaplain and Incum- bent of the English church at Memel, in Prussia, and while occupying that position he con- ducted extensive correspondence with Dutch and German theolo- gians as the representative on the Continent of the Anglican and Inter- national Christian Moral Science Association. Dr. Clark resigned the British chaplaincy at Memel in 1874, when he was engaged by the Christian Evidence Society, as a lecturer, to conduct classes for the study of Christian Evidences in or near London. In 1876 he was appointed rector of St. Philip's, ijitigua.