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medal from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was an associate, and in 1897 the Matteucci medal. He wrote many i>am- phlets and monographs, among which are: On Concave Gratings for Optical PurjMses (1883); On the Relative ^Vave lA^igtha at the Lines of the Solar Spectrum (1880); On the Mechanical Equiv- alent of Heat (1880), and Photographs of the Nor- mal Solar Spectrum. He died in Baltimore, Md., April 16, 1901. and in accordance with his ex- pressed wish liis ashes were deposited in the lab- oratory of Joliiis Hopkins university.

ROWLAND, Kate Mason, author, was born in Virginia; daugiiler of Major Isaac S. and Catli- erine Armstead (Mason) Rowland. She became a member of the Virginia Historical society, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia An- tiquities, the Confederate Memorial Literary society, the United Daugliters of the Confederacy, and an honorary member of the Woman's Liter- ary club of Baltimore. She edited: The Poems of Fran Ic O. Ticknor, M.D. (1879), and is the author of: The Life of George 3Iason, Including His Speeches, Public Papers and Correspondence (2 vols., 1892), and The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, ivith His Correspondence and Public Papers (2 vols., 1898).

ROYCE, Homer Elihu, jurist, was born in Berkshire, Vt., June 14, 1819: son of Elihu Mar- vin and Sophronia (Parker) Royce; grandson of Stephen and Minerva (Marvin) Royce and of James and Mary (Peck) Parker. He attended the academies at St. Albans and Enosburg, Vt., and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He was state's attorney for Franklin county, 1846-47. and at the same time was a representative from Berkshire in the state legislature, serving as chairman of the railroad committee. He was married, Jan. 23, 1851, to Mary, daughter of Charles and Mary (Dunbar) Edmunds of Boston, Mass. He represented Franklin county in the state senate, 1849-51, and was a Republican rep- resentative in the 35th and 8Gth congresses, 1857- 61. He served as a state senator again in 1861 and in 1808, and was justice of the supreme court, 1870-91, beingchief justice, 1880-91. He received from the University of Vermont the degrees A.M.. 1851 and LL.D., 1882. He died at St. Albans. Vt., April 24, 1891.

ROYCE, Josiah, philo.sopher, was born in Grass Valley, Nevada county, Cal., Nov. 20, 1855; son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce; who were both born in England — the former at Ridlington, Rutlandshire, and the latter at Strat- fiird-on-Avon. He attended the common schools; was graduated from the University of California, A B., 1875: continued his studies in Leipzig and Gottingen. 1875-76, and was a fellow of Johns Hopkins university, 1876-78, receiving the

degree of Ph.D. in the latter year. He was an assistant professor of English literature and logic in the University of California, 1878-82, and associated with Harvard college as instructor in pliilosophy, 1.S82-84; assistant professor of the same. 1885-92, and in the latter year was ap- pointed professor of the history of philosophy. He was married Oct. 2, 1880. to Katherine, daughter of Edward Francis and Eliza (Clement) Head of Brookline, Mass. Professor Royc;e de- livered a course of lectures before the Twentieth Century club in 1898, and in 1899 the Gilford lectures on natural theolog}' at the Universilj' of Aberdeen, Scotland, which university conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1900. He also received the same degree from Johns Hopkins in 1902. He is the author of: A PHmer of Logical Analysis (1881); The Religious Aspect of Cali- fornia (1885); California, in the " American Com- monwealth ^' series (1886); The Feud of Oakjield Creek, a novel (1887); The Sjyirit of Modern Phil- osophy (1892); The Conception of God, with comments by S. E. Mezer, J. LeConte and G. H. Howison (1895); Studies of Good and Evil {\89S); The World and the Individual (1900); The Con- ception of Immortality (1900). In 1903 he wrote an introduction to the new four-volume edition of John Fiske"s " Cosmic Philosophy."

ROYCE, Stephen, governor of Vermont, was born in Tinmouth, Vt., Aug. 12, 1787; son of Stephen and Minerva (Marvin) Royce; grandson of Maj. Stephen Royce of the Continental army, and of Dr. Ebenezer (surgeon in the Continental arm}'^) and Sarah (Adams) Marvin, and a descendant of William Parker who came from England in 1633, and of Matthew Marvin who came to America in 1635 and was one of the original pro- prietors of Norfolk, Conn. He attended the common school at Tinmouth, an academy at Middlebury, and was graduated from Middlebury college in 1807. He taught school and studied law under his uncle, Ebenezer Marvin, and practised at Berkshire, Vt., 1809-11; at Sheldon, Vt., 1811-17, and at St. Albans, 1817- 68. He was a representative from Sheldon to the state legislature, 1815-10, and from St. Albans, 1822-24; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1823; a member of the committee appointed in 1816 to report on the constitutional amendment for choosing both presidential elec- tors and representatives in congress by the dis- trict system; was state's attorney for Franklin county, 1816-18; county judge. 1825-26: judg& of the supreme court, 1829-47 and chief justice, 1847-52. He was elected by the Whigs, governor of Vermont in 1854; was re-elected in 1855, and