ogy, assured by the German professor that they could learn the English language and the subject both easier than they could learn the subject alone from any other text-book. With all his eminence as a scholar and an author, Professor Dana was the simplest and most lovable of men. The writer remembers being one of a party of freshmen whom he took out over the hills near New Haven and showed the elementary characteristics of the rocks with as much interest and patience as though he had been a newly appointed tutor.

Daniel C. Eaton.

Another Yale professor, who had acquired eminence in the field of botany, died on May 29th. Daniel C. Eaton was born at Fort Gratiot, Mich., Sept. 12, 1834, and graduated from Yale in 1857. In 1864 he became professor of botany in that institution, where he remained until his death. He was the author of several works, including "The Ferns of America." He made quite a number of important expeditions in the interest of science, among them one to the Wasatch mountains in Utah.

Theophilus Adam Wylie.

Theophilus Adam Wylie, a veteran professor of the University of Indiana, and author of the published volume giving its history, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 8, 1810. He was the son of Samuel Brown Wylie, an eminent classical and oriental scholar. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1830. In 1837 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy and chemistry in the University of Indiana. In 1852 was made professor of mathematics in Miami University, but three years later he returned to his former post. In 1864 he was transferred to the chair of ancient languages. In 1886 he withdrew from active work and was made professor emeritus.

1. b. R. Dawson.

Among supervisory officers, we have lost the former commissioner of education under President Cleveland's first administration, who died February 1st. N. H. R. Dawson was born in Charleston, S. C., and was a descendant of Paul Hamilton, secretary of the navy in 1812, and also of several early colonial governors of South Carolina. He was also a brother-in-law of President Lincoln, their wives being sisters.

Joseph Estabrook.

A foremost teacher of Michigan died September 30th. Joseph Estabrook was born in Bath, N. H., July 3, 1820, was graduated from Oberlin College, and in 1853 was made principal of schools in Ypsilanti. After fifteen years of service there, he went to East Saginaw to organize the school system, and in 1871 returned to Ypsilanti as principal of the State Normal School. In 1880 he retired to accept a professorship in Olivet College. In 1886 and 1888 he was elected state superintendent of public instruction. He was cheery, warmhearted, and broad-minded-a noble old man.

benry A. Ford.

Another Michigan teacher of much influence was Henry A. Ford, who died last November. He was a captain in the army during the Rebellion, and afterward became professor in Kalamazoo College. He was for many years editor of the "Michigan Teacher," and did editorial work on the Kalamazoo "Telegraph" and the Cleveland “Leader.”

Mrs. Mary 3. Platt.

On September 20th, on the Pachango Indian reservation in Southern California, Mrs. Mary J. Platt, teacher of the school, was killed by an assassin, who placed her body in the center of the floor of the schoolhouse, covered it with stovewood, and set it on fire. An illustrated sketch of her work was given in the "Review of Reviews" for November.

Michael Frank.

In the death at Kenosha of Col. Michael Frank, Wisconsin lost the man who has been called the father of her public school system. He had reached the age of ninety.

David Swing.

David Swing, who died in Chicago last October, though best known as clergyman, was a graduate of Miami University and had been a professor in that institution. While pastor of a Presbyterian church in Chicago, he was accused of heresy, and though acquitted by the lower ecclesiastical courts withdrew from the church rather than carry the trial further, and became pastor of the Central Church, organized for him, where he taught "a faith full of love and gentleness and charity." He was also a successful writer, and was noted for his familiarity with the classics.

This report can hardly close without reference to some of the notable deaths abroad.

John Stuart Blackie.

John Stuart Blackie, who died March 2d, was well known in America through his "Self-Culture," and his fame as one of the great teachers of the century is widespread.

He was born in Glasgow in 1809, and after studying in Germany and Italy returned in 1834 to Edinburgh, where he published a metrical translation of "Faust," and became a lawyer. In 1841 he became professor of Latin literature in the University of Aberdeen. A metrical translation of the works of Eschylus led to his being called to Edinburgh, where he was professor of Greek from 1852 to 1882. Since 1882 he devoted himself to authorship, sometimes lecturing on modern Greek at Oxford and Cambridge. He was one of the most interesting personalities of his generation, and a remarkable instructor.

Among the many anecdotes told of him, the following is so characteristic that it should be repeated here:

He was lecturing to a new class with whose personnel he was imperfectly acquainted. A student arose to read a paragraph, his book in his left hand. "Sir!" thundered Blackie, "hold your book in your right hand!"-and as the student would have spoken-"No words, sir! Your right hand, I say!"

The student held up his right arm, ending piteously at the wrist. "Sir, I hae nae right hand!" he said.

Before Blackie could open his lips there arose such a storm of hisses as one perhaps must go to Edinburgh to hear; and by it his voice was overborne. Then the professor left his place and went down to the student he had unwittingly hurt and put his arm around the lad's shoulders and drew him close, and the lad leaned against his breast.

"My boy," said Blackie-he spoke very softly, but not so softly but that every word was audible in the hush that had fallen on the classroom-"my boy, you'll forgive me that I was over-rough? I did not know-I did not know!"

He turned to the students and with a look and tone that came straight from his great heart, he said: "And let me say to you all, I am rejoiced to be shown that I am teaching a class of gentlemen." Scottish lads can cheer as well as hiss, and that Blackie learned.

Thomas Henry burley.

The name of Thomas Henry Huxley, who died on June 29th, only a few days ago, is as well known in America as in England. He was

born in 1825, at Ealing, Middlesex, and educated at Ealing School, in which his father was one of the teachers. At twenty he was graduated from the Charing Cross Medical School, and in 1846 entered the navy as assistant surgeon. He was appointed to H. M. S. Rattlesnake, about to sail upon an exploring expedition in the South Pacific. In the course of the long voyage he had splendid opportunities to make observations of the natural history of the sea, particularly with reference to the anatomy of the mollusks and medusae. He wrote several admirable papers, afterward published in the philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, which in 1851 made him a Fellow. In 1853 he resigned his navy appointment and became professor of natural history in the School of Mines. He was also connected with other institutions as instructor and lecturer, and began to occupy a distinguished place as specialist in zoology and biology. From 1863 to 1869 he was Hunterian professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, and contributed as much to researches in zoology as any investigator of his time. He was a warm friend of Professor Tyndall, and in early life traveled with him over the Alps. In 1870 he became a member of the London School Board and was prominent as a fierce opponent of denominational education. In 1872 he was elected rector of the University of Aberdeen, and in 1881 became inspector-general of fisheries. In 1884 he was elected president of the Royal Society. About this time a letter published through breach of confidence showed him a bold adherent of the agnostic doctrine that it is impossible to define the unknowable in terms of the known. In this letter Mr. Huxley declared himself the first to introduce the word agnostic into modern philosophical discussion. In 1876 he visited America, delivering lectures in several cities. Among his more important works, apart from those strictly scientific, are, "Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews," 1870, and "Critiques and Addresses," 1873. With Darwin, Tyndall, and Spencer, he formed the great quartette which succeeded in forcing upon an unwilling public the doctrine of evolution.

James Anthony Froude.

James Anthony Froude, who died October 20th, was born in Devonshire, April 23, 1818, and was graduated from Oxford in 1840, and made Fellow of Exeter College at the age of twenty-four. At this time he was in sympathy with the Newman high church movement, and, when ordained deacon in 1844, wrote "The Lives of the English Saints." But in 1848 he published "The Nemesis of Faith," which was considered an attack upon religion, and he was forced to resign his Fellowship. He became a writer for the "Westminster

Review," and in 1856 published the first volumes of his "History of England," the last appearing in 1870. In 1869, he was installed rector of St. Andrews, and was for a time editor of "Fraser's Magazine." In 1873 he lectured in America, afterward amplifying his lectures into "The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century." His "Short Studies on Great Subjects" appeared in 1867, his "Cæsar" in 1879, his "Reminiscences of the High Church Revival" and his "Reminiscences of Carlyle" in 1881, his "Thomas Carlyle" the next year, his "Oceanea" in 1886, and afterward "Thomas á Becket," "The English in the West Indies," and a novel, "The Two Chiefs of Dunboy." In 1892 he was made Regius professor of history at Oxford.

bermann belmboltz.

In the death of Hermann Helmholtz, the world loses perhaps its greatest scientist. He was born Aug. 21, 1821, at Potsdam, the son of a professor in the gymnasium. He took the degree of M. D., in 1842 became an army surgeon, and in 1847 read a paper on the conservation of force that made him famous. In 1849 he was made professor in Königsberg, in 1855 at Bonn, in 1858 at Heidelberg, and in 1871 at Berlin. In 1891 he was made president of a school for the experimental furthering of natural inquiry and the technics of precision. His principal investigations were upon sound and sight, but his memoir on eddies or vortices, in the field of hydrodynamics, was second in importance only to that on the conservation of force.

William Moon..

William Moon, who died on October 11th, was the inventor of the embossed system of printing for the blind, which he had adapted to 476 languages and dialects, and in which more than 200,000 volumes have been printed.