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for a cantata. The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, which was sung at the opening of the Centennial exhibition, Philadeipiiia, Pa., May, 1876, under Theodore Tlionias's direction, by a chorus of one thousand voices, with organ and an orchestra of nearlj^two hundred instrumentalists. His .services as president of the Metropolitan college of music, of New York city, were greatly appreciated by its students. His composition, The Golden Legend, obtained a prize of one thousand dollars from the Cincinnati musical association. The Legend of Don Munio, a ro- mantic cantata, founded on Irving's Alhamhra; The Light of Asia, written in 1885, the text from St. Edwin Arnold's epic poem: The Voy- age of Columbus, The Nun of Nidaras, King Olaf's Christmas, The Forty-sixth Psalm, ■Chorus of Sjiirifs and Hours, from Slielley's Prometheus Unbound. Hymn, to Mtisic, The Story of the Cross, The Triumph of David, Marmion, and a communion service in C. in nine numbers, are among his more popular •compositions.

BUCK, Qurdon, surgeon, was born in New York city, May 7, 1807. He obtained a classical education and engaged in business for some years. He then studied medicine and was gradu- ated from the College of physicians and surgeons in 1830. After a short hcspital practice he travelled in Europe and studied in the medical schools of France and Germany. He returned to New York in 1833, and established a practice, but in 1835 again visited Europe, where he remained two years. On his return to the United States he was appointed visiting surgeon to the New York hospital, a position which he held during the remainder of his life. The treatment ■of fractures known as " Buck's extension " took its name and origin from him. He held impor- tant offices in the principal medical societies of America, and was a feUow and at one time vice- president of the Academy of medicine. He was a member of the American medical association, of the New York pathological society, and a trustee of the New York dispensary of the eye and ear infirmary, and of the college of physi- cians and surgeons. He was also visiting sur- geon to New York hospitals. He is the author of Contributions to Reparative Surgery (1876). He died in New York city, March 6, 1877.

BUCKALEW, Charles R., senator, was born ill Fishing Creek township. Pa., Dec. 28, 1821. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was prosecuting attorney of Columbia county from 18-15 to 1847. He was elected to the state senate in 1850 and 1855; was commissioned to excliange ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay in 1854; was a presidential elector in 1856; cliairman of the Democratic state committee in 1S.")7; again

state senator in 1857; one of the commissioners to revise a penal code of the state in 1858. In 1860 lie was appointed minister resident at Ecua- dor by President Buchanan. In 1863 he was elected to the U.S. senate, where he was promi- nent on several committees, and active in debate upon the reconstruction measures, which he con- sidered illegal. He was elected to the state senate in 1869 for the fourth time, served in the constitutional convention of 1873; in 1876 was on the Democratic electoral ticket. In 1872 he published a volume upon Proportional Repre- sentation, and in 1883 a work upon the Co7i- stitution of Pennsylvania. In 1887 was elected a representative to the 50th, and in 1889 was re- elected to the 51st congress. He died at Bloom- burg, Pa., May 19, 1899.

BUCKHAM, Matthew Henry, educator, was born at Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, July 4, 1832; son of James Buckliam, an independent clergyman, who settled in Connecticut, where the son received his preparation for college. He matriculated at the University of Vermont, and was graduated in 1851 with honors. The year following his graduation he was principal of Lenox academy, Mass., and tutor in the Vermont university. He then visited Europe, and, after several years of study and travel, retui-ned in 1856 to accept the chair of Greek in the Uni- versity of Vermont. In 1865 he added to his duties those of professor of English literature, resigning both chairs in 1871 to accept the presi- dency of the university, made vacant by the resignation of President James B. Angell. In 1877 he received the degree of D.D. from Hamilton college, N. Y., and from Dartmouth college, and in the same year the University of Vermont conferred upon him the degree of A.]\I. From 1867 to 1874 he was a prominent member of the Vermont state board of education. His addresses, sermons, reviews and jwipers on edu- cational topics have been largely circulated in pamphlet form.

BUCKHOUT, Isaac Craig, civil engineer, was born at Morrisania, N. Y., in 1831. At an early age he was employed by the Harlem railroad as a surveyor's assistant, and he afterward occupied the position of city engineer, and superintendent of water-works in Paterson, N. J. Later he was appointed city surveyor of New York, and in 1853, returning to the employ of the Harlem railroad company, he superintended the con- struction of extensive works on the Harlem river, and of important improvements in various parts of the road. He became chief engineer of the road in 1857, and its superintendent in 1863. He designed the Grand central station, and was one of a committee of four engineers appointed by the legislature to carry out the provisions of the