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ed., 1880) and " Empirical Psychology " (rev. ed., 1882); three baccalaureate sermons: Orowtli through Obedience (1883), The Source of Light (1889), and Onr Father's Kingdom (1890); Ditti/, a Book for Schools (1891); Citizenship, a Book for Classes in Government and iaw (1894). He died in Amherst, Mass., May 12, 1895.

SEELYE, Laurens Clark, educator, was born in Bethel, Conn., Sept. 20, 1837; son of Seth and Abigail (Taylor) Seeyle. He was graduated at Union college, Schenectady, N.Y., 1857; was a student at Andover Theological seminary, 1858- 59, and at Berlin and Heidelberg universities, 1860-62. He was licensed to preach by the Cleveland presbytery, June, 1869. He was mar- ried, Nov. 17, 1863, to Henrietta Sheldon, daugh- ter of Lyman and Harriet (Slieldon) Chapin of Albany, N.Y, On Jan. 20, 1863, he became pastor of the North Congregational church, Springfield, Mass., which position he held until July 1, 1865, when he resigned to become pro- fessor of English literature and rhetoric at Am- herst college and held the chair, 1865-73. He

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was elected president of Smith college in 1873. He received the degrees D.D. from Union col- lege in 1875, and LL.D. from Amherst in 1894. He is the author of: The Ambiguity of Celtic Literature (Putnam's, Oct., 1870); Our Celtic In- heritance (Putnam's, May, 1870); The Ancient Fenians (Scribner's, 1871); Need of a Collegiate Education for Women (address before American Institute of Instruction, 1873); The Ideal of a Woman's college (inaugural address, 1875); The Higher Education of Women; its Perils and its Benefits (American Institute of Instruction, 1888). SEQHERS, Charles John, R.C. archbishop, was born at Ghent, Belgium, Dec. 26, 1839. He made his theological studies at Ghent and in the American college, Louvain, and was ordained at Mechlin, Belgium, May 30, 1863, by Cardinal Engelbert Stercks. He was sent to the diocese of Vancouver's Island, B.C., to labor among the Indians, and was the first priest to preach to the Indians in Alaska; was made administrator of the diocese in 1871; was elected bishop in 1873, and was consecrated bishop of Vancouver's

Island at Victoria, June 29, 1873, by Archbishop F. N. Blanchet. He was made titular bishop of '•Emisa"and coadjutor to the Arclibishop of Oregon city, Dec. 10, 1878, and planted missions in Washington, Idalio and Montana, 1879-80. He was consecrated archbishop of Oregon city, Dec. 20, 1880, but wishing to continue his work among the Indians, visited Rome in 1883 and ob- tained the Pope's permission to resign the Arch- bishopric, which he did Dec, 3, 1884, and accepted reappointment as bishop of Vancouver's Island, retaining, however, the title of archbishop. He attended the third plenary council at Baltimore, Md., in 1884, and after his return to Victoria, B.C. in 1885, renewed his mission work among the Alaska Indians in July, 1886, assisted by two Jesuit i^riests, and a servant and guide named Fuller. His first mission was established at the station of the Alaska trading company, at the head of Stewart's river, where he left the priests, and with Fuller and a few Indians made liis way to Muklakayet, and thence to Nulata on the Yukon river, where he was shot and killed by Fuller. His body was carried by two Indian guides and temporarily buried at Fort St. Michael, July 6, 1887, and on Sept. 11, 1888 was disinterred and carried by the U.S. S. Thetis to Victoria and placed under the altar of St. An- drew's Cathedral, Victoria. He died at Nulato, Alaska. Nov. 28. 1886.

SEQUIN, Edouard, physician, was born in Clamecy, France, Jan. 20, 1812; son and grand- son of prominent physicians. He studied at the Colleges of Auxerre and St. Louis, and took courses in medicine and surgery under Jean Gas- pard Itard. From this time he made the study of idiocy his specialty, and his experiments on an idiot boy in 1837 were so encouraging that in 1839 he established the first school for the train- ing of idiots. In 1844 his work was investigated by a commission from the Paris Academy of Sciences, and reported to be of positive useful- ness. He came to the United States in 1848, and worked in idiot schools, following his methods in South Boston, Barre, Mass., and Albany; was practising physician in Portsmouth, Ohio, 1851- 54, and was connected with the Idiot Asylum of Syracuse, N.Y., 1854-57, when he became active in establishing other schools of the kind in Conn- ecticut, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He revisited France, 1858-59, and made his home in New York city in 1863. In 1806 he carried on special exper- imental work in thermography and thermometry, which resulted later in the invention of the physiological thermometer. He was commis- sioned by the United States to the World's fair in Vienna, 1873; was president of the American Association of Medical Officers of Institutions for Idiots, and a member of other medical societies.