The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-20
OBITUARY.


the Master Of the mt lied in London on Saturday
last, in his sixty dfth year. During the past quarter
Of a century che deceased has been ackho"leugeu
to be one f the first chemists OF the worlu anu MS
merits aaVe been worthily recognized oy an age that
pecpdeFly honors the devotees OF science AS long
ago az 1896 he was elected fenow oi the hoyal
society: in 1sls nc became corresponding member
VT ,be Academy of Sciences OF the Institute OF
ond tho oxford University in 1855 conferred
on him the honorary title OF DOCTOR OF civil Law.
His work ON the elements of Chemistry has long
neen standard and has done much to extend his
fame among sclentD" s'uueh'S i'll Vhe Ohioeu oVaUes
and other lands
Mr. CJraham had indeed mastered the whole circle
nj the sciences, although his study of love was
cbepnstry and tscognate relations. The law Of the
sHuson Of gases the law of the diffusion Of liquids,
and the new method OF separation known as Dialysls,
were his leading discoveries. The Royal Society Of
edinburgh, in 1884, gave him the Keith prize for the
rst and the Royal Society," in 1s62 conferred for the
latter the Coplez medal.
Mr. Graham was the son of a merchant and manu-
tacturer OF Glasgow, Scotland, and was bora De-
.,eBnber 81 1905. He early entered at Glasgow School,
and subseqU emily received the graduation degree of
NJ A. from'the University OF Glasgow in 1926. After
a two years residence in Edinburgh, he returned 10
mis- native Gown and established laboratory for the
nractical study OF chemistry He soon called to
lecture at the Mechanics Institute, and APP
-no,nted Andersonian Professor at Glasgow In 1887
he resigned the latter position to accept the Profess
sorshp of Chemistry in the London University. Upon
the retirement OF Sir John Herschel from the Mas
tershtp of the Mint, in 1855, he received the high
compliment of that appointment, and ably dls-
charged its duties until his recent death.
Peter Mark Roget, vi. D., f. II. =.
DR.. Peter Mark Roget, distinguished Englsh
ebyscian aud author died in London on Friday last
at the ripe age OF ninety. AS medical practitioner,
as a scientific scholar, and as the author OF the
.uTbesaurus of English Words and Phrases" the de-
ceased conferred great services upon scientific and
literary circles.
stock refugees in Switzerland His father was born
in Geneva, but afterwards was pastor OF a Swiss
church in London; his mother was daughter Of
Sir Samuel Romilly He was born in 1779, and re-
ceiyed the degree of M. ID. from the University of
E6inburqh in 1895 In 1903 he was appointed private
physcian to the Marquis of Lansdowne in 1904 he
wasmade physician to the Manchester Infirmary,
and in 1905 he settled permanently in London. He
was largely interested in founding the "Northern
Dspensaryr to which excellent charity he
was physician for many years. DIR. Rogets
reputation as a physician was early won, and
as lecturer on scientific medical topics he received
appeintments from the Queen and from learned
societies. In 1884 he elected Fellow OF the
Royal Society," to which he soon became secretary,
and held the onerous position with marked ability
for twenty years He was the first Fullerian Pro-
fessor o. Physiology at the Royal Institute In 1884
and he wrote many popular treatises scientific
subjects for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge all of which gave him an enviable repu-
tation In 1899 he appoiHted Examiner in Physi-
Ology in the University of London.
As a contribution to English letters, DR.. Roget's
Thesaurus" stands by its intrinsic merit in the first
rank of books of reference indispensable to scholars
1t serves as dictionary of ideas, enabling the
writer to trace at once the distinctions between
cognate words in all their minute differences, and to
select the word best adapted to clohe the inhabited
thought. The author first projected it in 1904, and
then prepared "a classed catalogue of words on a
small scale" for his private use. Having subsequently
resigned his position of Secretary OF the Royal
Society, he gave four years unremtting labor to its
compilation. 1t first published in 1854, in his
seventythird year, and it was at once accepted by
the literary world as suppementing great want.
The last few years of DR.. Roget's life have been
spent in calm retirement, and he was able to rest
upon his henors. He was a Fellow Of the Royal
College Of Physicians, member of the Senate of the
University OF London and of the literary and phi
lOsephical societies OF Manchester Liverpool, Brs-
toll Quebec, New York, Haarlem, Turin, and Stock
holm In Europe and America his merits an 1 labors
were recognized and honoredas they fully deserved.
Henry PSupots, d., Bishop of Exeter.
The cable ANNOUNCES the death of this eminent
divine on Saturday, at the lature age OF VI years
lie had been for many years the lea,r Oh the lign-
Church party in England, and bis deatp wih oe
deeply regretted by those who were in sympathy
with his views on this important question. He was
the of a Gloucester innkeeper, and was born in
May, 1ITS. He received, however, thorough edu-
cation and at the early age OF thirteen was given
scholarship at Oxford. ID1I96 at the age of eghteen
he received the degree Of b. A., and soon afterward
became the recipient Of the Chanceilcr's
prize. Shortly afterwards he was elected
a Fellow OF Magdalen College, and received
the prize offered by the Asiatc Society for 8
panegyric on the eminent Oriental scholar, Sir vii
liam Jones. Mr.. Philpotts, in 1904, marrleS niece
of Lady Eldon, and became one of the chapains I,
the Bishop OF Durham In 1906 he first distingushe,
himself in theological discussion, his opponent bein
DIR. Lingard, the well-known Roman Catholic histo
rian. In 1909 he was made Prebendary of Durham
Cathedral, and held the cure OF one OF the large
parishes in that city for years. when he was pre-
ferred to the rectory OF Stanhope He received tn
degree Of d. d. in 1921, and in 1925 was appointe
Dean OF Chester. In 1885, on the recommendation
OF the Duke of Wellington he was elevated to tn
Bishopric OF Exeter, remaining at the head of tina
See until the time OF his death, period of nearl
forty years.
1t was as a controversialist that the Bishop O
Exeter achieved his greatest fame. Taking an nc
tive part in the Roman Cassolic emancipation aSIta
lion, he addressed a letter to Mr.. Canning on tn
subject which created profound sensation at th
time, and during the entire period Of the controyers
he was in frequent consultation with Wellington an
the other leading statesmen OF the Tory party Fror
that time to the day OF his death he has been hot
in and out of Par lament, OF the stoutest chan
piOns OF the extreme High Church party Last We,
an effort was made to oust him from his bishonr
by retiring him upon pension but the attempt w,
a failure.
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