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Graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1888 (Fourth Wrangler) ; Fellow, 1889-47 ; Vicar of Ixworth, Suffolk, 1847-61, and of Earl's Colne, 1867-89. On the 12th, at Triblitz, Bohemia, aged 95, Baroness Ulrike Ton Levltzow, a friend of (Goethe. Born at Leipsig ; became acquainted with Goethe at Karlsbad, 1822-8, who dedicated to her his "Trilogy of Passion." On the 18th, at Paignton, aged 44, Surgeon-Major Arthur Harding. Educated at St. Thomas's and Edinburgh ; appointed to the Army Medical Service, 1878 ; served with 57th Regiment in the Zulu War, 1879-80 ; the Boer War, 1881 ; the Egyptian War, 1882 ; and with the Desert Column under Sir Herbert Stewart, 1884-5. On the 14th, at Meran, aged 51, Professor Johann Carl WUhelm Ferdinand n—nqmi. Born at Rtibeland ; educated at Gdttingen ; appointed Professor of Chemistry at Berlin, 1882 ; made important discoveries in the manufacture of artificial flavour- ing matters and perfumes, especially vanilla and the scent of violets. On the 15th, at Southport, aged 90, Alexander M'Dougall. Born at Coldstream ; began life as a wholesale shoemaker ; became a schoolmaster at Chorlton Hall, Manchester ; studied chemistry under Dr. Dalton and became a manufacturing chemist ; was the inventor of the first atmospheric railway and of many other mechanical and chemical appliances. On the 15th, at Berlin, aged 76, General von Stlehle. Took part in the Schleswig-Holstein (1864) and Austro-Prussian (1866) Campaigns and was Chief of the Staff to Prince Frederick Charles in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1. On the 16th, at Leipsig, aged 78, Morlts Julius Hermanne Busch, the self- chosen biographer of Prince Bismarck. Born at Dresden ; educated at Leipsig University and studied theology there, 1842-6, but on the death of his father, 1847, devoted himself to journalism, advocating Republican views, which he altogether repudiated in later life; travelled in the United States, 1851-2; in Schleswig- Holstein, 1858, espousing the Prussian policy ; and in the East for Austrian Lloyd Co., 1857-9 ; edited the Grenxboten, 1859-64 and 1865-8 ; newspaper mouthpiece of the Duke Frederick of Augustenberg, 1864-5, and of Prince Bismarck, together with a post in the Foreign Office, 1870-8; published "Diary of the Franco- Prussian War" (1878), "Count Bismarck and His People" (1882), "Bismarck: Some Secret Passages from His History " (1897), and other works and translations. On the 16th, at Bath, aged 98, Lady Mabella Knox, Lady Mabella Needham, daughter of first Earl of Kilmorey. Married, 1822, Hon. J. H. Knox, son of the Earl of Ranfurly, who had carried the colours of the Scots Guards at Salamanca. She had been present at the Jubilee of George III., the Coronation of George IV. and both Jubilees of Queen Victoria, 1887 and 1897. On the 16th, at Christ Church, Hants, aged 84, Major-General Bran Maberly, O.B., BJL, son of E. Maberly. Educated at Woolwich Academy ; entered the Royal Artillery, 1885 ; served with distinction in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8. Married, 1848, Laura C, daughter of O. Smith, of Blendon Hall, Kent. On the 17th, at Consewood Grange, Coventry, aged 85, Sir Richard Moon, first baronet, son of a Liverpool merchant. Became a Director of the London and North- Western Railway, 1847, and its Chairman from 1862-91, during which time he raised it to the position of the premier line. Married, 1840, Eleanor, daughter of John Brookelbank, of Hazelbank, Cumberland. On the 18th, at Ladysmith, Natal, aged 49, Arthur Oowell Stark, M.D., son of J. S. Stark, of Torquay. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and Clifton College, and studied medicine at Edinburgh University and at Berlin ; settled at Cape Town, 1886, making a special study of South African birds, on which he wrote a book published after his death. He volunteered for medical service and was killed during the siege of Ladysmith. On the 18th, in Mecklenburgh Square, London, aged 82, John Archibald Russell, Q.O., son of J. Russell, of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Educated at Edinburgh High School and University ; called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, 1841 ; Q.C., 1868 ; Recorder of Bolton, 1865-9 ; County Court Judge, Manchester, 1869-90. Married, 1852, May, daughter of T. H. Bower, of Hale, Cheshire. On the 18th, at Hendon, aged 62, Harry Hloks, M.D., F.B.S., son of Thomas Hicks, of St. David's, Pembroke. Edu- cated at the Collegiate School there and at Guy's Hospital; practised in his native town, 1862-71, when he removed to Hendon and devoted himself especially to the study of geology, receiving the Gold Medal of the Geological Society, 1888. Married, 1864, Mary, daughter of Rev. P. D. Richardson, of Dogwells, Pembroke- shire. On the 19th, at Belfast, aged 72, Thomas Macknight. Editor of the Northern Whig since 1868 ; author of " Life of Edmund Burke," " Life of Boling- broke," "Life of Disraeli," etc. On the 20th, at Hatfield House, aged 72, Karchloness of Salisbury, Georgina, daughter of Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Baron of the Exchequer. Married, 1857, Lord Robert Cecil, at that time one of the

Srincipal writers in the Saturday Review, and successively Lord Cranborne and [arquess of Salisbury. On the 20th, at South Kensington, aged 87, Sir Bawson

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