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880 review, the Revista de España. In politics he belongs to the Liberal-Conservative party.

 PEROWNE,, D.D., was born March 13, 1823, at Burdwan, Bengal, of a family of French (Huguenot) extraction, that came over to this country at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; was appointed Bell's University Scholar in 1842, Crosse (Theological) Scholar in 1845, Tyrrwhitt's (Hebrew) Scholar in 1848, and Member's Prizeman (Latin Essay), in 1844, 1846, and 1847. Dr. Perowne took his B.A. degree in 1845, and that of M.A. in 1848, and was elected a Fellow of his College in 1849. He was Select Preacher at the University Church in 1853, 1861, and 1873, Hulsean Lecturer in 1868, and Lady Margaret's Preacher in 1874. For several years he held a Lectureship and Professorship in King's College, London, and was Assistant-Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich. From 1862 to 1872 he was Vice-Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. He was in 1872 appointed Prælector in Theology, and in 1873 elected a Fellow of Trinity College; from 1874 to 1876 he was Cambridge Preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. He was Canon Residentiary of Llandaff from 1869 to 1878, and Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, having been elected to this office, June 17, 1875; he was also Examiner in the Text of Scripture, &c., in the University of London. He was appointed an honorary chaplain to the Queen, May 13, 1875. In Aug., 1878, he was nominated by the Crown, on the recommendation of Lord Beaconsfield, to the deanery of Peterborough, vacated by the death of Dr. Saunders. Dr. Perowne is the author of "The Book of Psalms, a New Translation, with Notes, Critical and Exegetical," 2 vols., 5th edit.; Hulsean Lectures on "Immortality;" a volume of sermons; occasional sermons; "The Athanasian Creed;" "Confession in the Church of England"; articles in Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," Contemporary Review, and Good Words, and an Essay on Welsh Cathedrals. He is also the editor of Al Adjrumiieh, an Arabic Grammar, and of "Rogers on the Thirty-Nine Articles." Dr. Perowne is a member of the Company engaged on the revision of the Old Testament. He married, in 1862, Anna Maria, third daughter of the late Humphry William Woolrych, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, of Croxley, Hertfordshire.

 PERRY,, D.D., formerly Bishop of Melbourne, youngest son of the late John Perry, Esq., of Moor Hall, Essex, was born in 1807, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduatea B.A. in 1828, as Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman, and first class in classics, and was afterwards elected a Fellow of his College. Having held a parochial cure in Cambridge for several years, he was consecrated, in 1847, to the see of Melbourne, on the subdivision of the diocese of Australia. He resigned his see in 1876. Dr. Perry was appointed Prelate of the Order of SS. Michael and George, May 25, 1878. In Nov. the same year he was appointed a Canon of Llandaff Cathedral.

 PERRY,, F.R.S., born Aug. 26, 1833, in London, received his classical education in the English College at Douay, and then followed a coarse of Mental Philosophy at Rome. He entered the Society of Jesus in Nov., 1853, and afterwards studied higher mathematics at Stonyhurst, London, and Paris. He was appointed in Sept., 1860, director of the Meteorological and Astronomical Observatory of Stonyhurst