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 1884; "Letter to General Macarthur," 1860; "Status of Colonial Bishops," 1868; "Translations and Fragments," 1874; "Les Propos de Labienus," 1874; and some other pamphlets.

Russell, Very Rev. Alexander, D.D., Dean of Adelaide, was born in 1825 and educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, where he was a prizeman in four subjects. Dr. Russell spent two years at Trinity College, Dublin, and took orders in the Church of England in 1850, in which year he was appointed curate of Emsworth, Hants; and having held other similar preferments, accepted the incumbency of St. John's, Adelaide, in 1855. Dr. Russell became incumbent of St. Paul's, Adelaide, in 1860, Canon in 1867, Dean in 1869, and Vicar-General in addition in 1878. During the interval between the departure of Bishop Short and the arrival of Bishop Reunion in 1882, Dr. Russell was administrator of the diocese. In 1878 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him the degree of D D., and he for some time edited the Education Journal, published in Adelaide. He was the author of "The Light which Lighteth every Man" (Hope & Co., London: 1854), "Charge to the Synod of Adelaide" (1878), "Memorial of Professor F. D. Maurice" (1870), and "The Seeker, and other Poems." Dean Russell died on May 20th, 1886.

'''Russell, Lieut.-Col. Andrew Hamilton''', sometime Minister for Native Affairs, New Zealand, comes of a Scotch family, and was formerly lieutenant-colonel in the 58th Regiment. Having taken part in the Maori wars, he purchased land in the Hawke's Bay district of New Zealand, and for some time resided in the colony, being for several years a member of the Legislative Council, and from Oct. 1865 to August 1866 Minister for Native Affairs in the Ministry. He married Miss Eliza Ann Howlett.

Russell, Henry Chamberlain, C.M.G., B.A., F.R.S., Government Astronomer of New South Wales, son of Hon. Bourn Russell, M.L.C., was born at West Maitland in that colony on March 17th, 1836. He was educated at the local grammar school and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated B.A. and took a scholarship for general proficiency and the Deas-Thomson scholarship for chemistry and physics. He was appointed assistant in the Sydney Observatory, and Government Astronomer in July 1870. Mr. Russell, who has been a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society since 1872, has inaugurated a system of meteorological observations throughout the colony, and in 1874 organised four parties to observe the transit of Venus, the results being utilised by the Astronomer Royal in the determination of the sun's distance. He is the author of "Memoirs on the Australian Eclipse Expedition," published in 1875, and of numerous other papers on astronomical subjects, and has designed a variety of instruments for use in the observatory. In 1877 his life was attempted by means of an infernal machine. He was created C.M.G. in 1890, and elected Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1891.

Russell, James George, S.M., entered the public service of South Australia in March 1878, and in August 1889 was appointed Commissioner of Insolvency and stipendiary magistrate at Adelaide in succession to Mr. Stuart. He is also Commissioner of Taxes and Commissioner of Stamps without salary.

Russell, Thomas, C.M.G., formerly a New Zealand publicist, was born in the year 1830 in Cork, Ireland. In 1833 he went to the Bay of Islands, N.Z., with his parents. Having embraced the legal profession, he practised in Auckland in partnership with Sir Fred Whitaker. Entering public life, Mr. Russell was a member of the Ministry from August 1862 to Oct. 1863, and also of the subsequent Whitaker-Fox Ministry from Oct. 1863 to Nov. 1864. In both of these administrations—in the former for only three months—he held the portfolio of Defence Minister, a position at that time involving grave responsibility. The Whitaker-Fox Ministry, it is well known, resigned in 1864, owing mainly to a difference of opinion with the Governor, Sir, on questions connected with the conduct of the Waikato war and the management of native affairs generally. On his resignation Mr. Russell retired from Parliamentary life. He took a leading part in the formation of the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Insurance Company, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and the New Zealand Land Mortgage Company. He was also largely  399