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AGNEW.AGNUS. "Louis Agassiz; His Life and Correspondence" (1886). He was buried in Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass., where Swiss pines shade his grave, and a boulder from the glacier of Aar marks its locality. He died Dec. 14, 1873. AGNEW, Cornelius Rea, physician, was born in New York city, Aug. 8, 1830. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1849 and received the degree of M.D. from the New York college of physicians and surgeons in 1852, and became house surgeon, and later curator, at the New York hospital. He went to Europe for special study in his profession, and on his return was appointed surgeon to the New York eye and ear infirmary. He was appointed surgeon-general of the state of New York in 1858; served in the civil war as director of the New York state volunteer hospital; and was a member of the United States sanitary commission. He was instrumental, in 1868, in the founding of an ophthalmic clinic in the college of physicians and surgeons, of which he was in 1869 appointed professor and lecturer. In 1868 he founded the Brooklyn, and in 1869 the Manhattan eye and ear hospitals. He served as a public school trustee and was president of the board; was one of the managers of the New York state hospital for the insane at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; one of the trustees of Columbia college, and was active in organizing its school of mines. The State medical society elected him president in 1872. He prepared many papers relating to the eye and ear, and published in the current medical journals, also, a "Series of American Clinical Lectures," edited by E.C. Sequin, M.D. (1875), besides numerous brief monographs. He died April 18, 1888. AGNEW, Daniel, jurist, was born in Trenton, N.J., Jan. 5, 1809. At an early age he went with his parents to Pittsburg, Pa., where he obtained his education and entered the legal profession. He became widely and favorably known as a sound lawyer, and at the revision of Pennsylvania's constitution in 1836, he was a member of the convention called for that purpose. In 1851 he became presiding judge of the Seventeenth judicial district, in 1863 supreme judge, and in 1873 chief justice. He received the degree of LL.D. from both Washington and Dickinson colleges. He resigned from his judgeship in 1879, "with the reputation of being one of the ablest jurists that ever sat upon the Pennsylvanian bench." In 1880 he was chosen as first president of the constitutional temperance amendment association of New Jersey. He published "A History of the Region of Pennsylvania North of the Ohio and West of the Allegheny River, etc., etc." (1878); and "Our National Constitution: its Adaptation to a State of War" (1863). He died at Beaver, Pa., March 9, 1902. AGNEW, David Hayes, surgeon, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., Nov. 24, 1818. He was educated at Jefferson college, and at Delaware college, Newark, Del. He was graduated from the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania on April 6, 1838. He returned to Lancaster, and entered the iron business, but failed, and became a lecturer in the then famous Philadelphia school of anatomy. He was chosen a surgeon of the Philadelphia city hospital in 1854, and there founded the pathological museum. He also established in Philadelphia a school of operative surgery. He afterwards served as demonstrator of anatomy and assistant lecturer on clinical surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. During the war he was consulting surgeon to the staff of forty-seven resident physicians at the great Mower army hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. It was his skill in operative surgery that brought him to the bedside of President Garfield. Dr. Agnew's principal publication, entitled "The Principles and Practices of Surgery," covers an experience of fifty active years, and its value, preserving and presenting as it does the life-work of such a recognized authority, can hardly be overrated. He died March 22, 1892, leaving bequests to various charities amounting in the aggregate to $68,000. AGNUS, Felix, soldier, was born in Lyons, France, July 4, 1839. At an early age his father's family moved to Paris, where, having received preparatory instructions, he entered the College Jolie Clair, near Montrouge. When thirteen years old he took a voyage to the South Seas, visiting on his way St. Helena. He travelled along the western coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and made a sojourn at Madagascar. He voyaged across the Indian and Pacific oceans, and visited the coast of South America, making inland excursions through parts of Chili and Peru. Sailing around Cape Horn he crossed the Atlantic to France, and thus completed a circumnavigation of the globe. These voyages occupied four years. In 1859 he entered active military life in France. He served in the war of Napoleon III. with Austria, being a volunteer in the 3d Regiment Zouaves, and engaged in the battle of Montebello, May 20, 1859. He was appointed to a post in the Flying Corps under Garibaldi, which did good service near the Italian lakes. At the conclusion of the war he came to the United States, and enlisted as a private in the 5th New York, Duryee Zouaves. He became very popular with the rank and file of the regiment, and for having saved the life of General Kilpatrick at the battle of Big Bethel, June 10, 1861, he was promoted second lieutenant. During McClellan's Peninsular campaign in 1862, Lieutenant Agnus volunteered to lead a charge at Ashland Bridge,