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AUER.AULICK. America elected him to membership, and he was the recipient of many other honors. Between 1840 and 1844 he was occupied in preparing and publishing a smaller and cheaper edition of his great work. With the assistance of his sons and the Rev. John Bachman, lie late in his life undertook and partly completed a second great work, The Quadrupeds of America, for which they had been collecting material for many years. The work (published in 1846-'54) consists of six volumes, three of which are filled with plates and three with letter-press. During the last four years of his life he was able to accomplish but little work, owing to constantly recurring seasons of mental alienation. His wife published his biography (1868.) His name in "Class H. Scientists," received a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university, in October, 1900. receiving sixty-seven votes. He died in Audubon Park, N.Y.. Jan. 27, 1851. AUER, John Gottlieb, second P. E. missionary bishop of Cape Palmas, Africa, and 101st in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Neubulach, Germany, Nov. 18, 1833. He was trained at the Mission school at Basle, Switzerland, and entered upon his missionary work in 1858, as instructor at a school in Akrapong, on the West African coast. In 1862 he joined the Cape Palmas mission of the American church, and was ordained as priest and deacon at Caralla, Africa, in 1862. He was given the degree of S. T. D. by Columbia college in 1873, and consecrated bishop of Cape Palmas in St. John's church, Georgetown, D. C, April 17, 1873. His zealous and efficient labors were lent to his missionary episcopate for but a few months. He died at Caralla, Africa, Feb. 16, 1874. AUGUR, Christopher Colon, soldier, was born in New York city in 1821. He was graduated from West Point in 1843, with the brevet rank of 2d lieutenant. For two years following he was in garrison at Fort Ontario, N. Y., receiving the full commission of lieutenant in September, 1845. During the war with Mexico he rendered distinguished service, being engaged in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. In 1847 he was made aide-de-camp to Brig.-Gen. Cushing. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in February, 1847, and until 1855 was in garrison and on recruiting service at various points. In August, 1852, he was promoted captain, and in 1855 he was engaged as a scout against the Yakima Indians at the Two Buttes, Washington territory. He received the rank of major by promotion in May, 1861, and that of brigadier-general in November of the same year. He served throughout the civil war, and was brevetted colonel for his conduct at Cedar Mountain, where he was severely wounded. In 1863 he was in command in the action of Port Hudson Plains, and in the siege of Port Hudson, and as president of military commission at Washington. From Oct. 13, 1863, to Aug. 13, 1866, he was in command of the department of Washington. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel July 1, 1863, brevet brigadier-general March 13, 1865, brevet major-general March 13, 1865, and colonel March 15, 1866. He was mustered out of volunteer service Sept. 1, 1866, and from January, 1867, to November, 1871, he was in command of the department of the Platte. He was promoted brigadier-general March 4, 1869, commanded the department of Texas, 1872-'75, the department of the Gulf, 1875-'78, the department of the South and of Missouri, 1878-*85, and he was retired July 10, 1885. He died at West Washington, D.C.. Jan. 16, 1898. AUGUR, Hezekiah, sculptor, was born in New Haven. Conn., Feb. 21, 1791. He was a shoemaker and enjoyed few educational opportunities. He became a wood carver and invented a woodcarving machine and a number of other ingenious devices, including a machine for weaving worsted lace. He then developed a taste for sculpture and made some wonderfully accurate copies of a head of Apollo, a bust of Washington and a statue of Sappho. His "Jephtha and his Daughter," said to be his best work, is in the Trumbull gallery at Yale college. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Yale college in 1833. He died at New Haven, Jan. 10, 1858. AUGUSTUS, John, philanthropist, was born in Boston about 1785. He was a shoemaker in moderate circumstances, but he devoted a large part of his time and means to reclaiming and befriending the criminal and outcast classes. It was his custom to visit the Boston police courts every morning, and to become bail for those charged with petty crimes, whom he thought capable of being reformed; and such was his judgment of character that he was very seldom mistaken. This he did for many years, and the amount of good he thus accomplished was beyond computation. He used to say that "the blessing of the friendless is the only coin that is current in the 'upper country.'" He died poor, but greatly respected and beloved, June 21, 1859. AULICK, John H., naval officer, was born at Winchester, Va., in 1789, and joined the United States navy as midshipman in 1809. He was assigned to service on the Enterprise, and in 1812 he was present at the capture of the British privateers Mars and Fly. and the ship Boxer. He was subsequently in service on the Saranac, the Brandywine, the Constitution, and other well-known vessels, and in 1843 was appointed commander of the navy yard in Washington, holding the position for three years. In 1847 he was placed in command of the