The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-25

Court OF Tennessee, died at his residence IN Knox
vile yesterday morning. He was seized with
O'Clock IN the forenoon. Judge Nelson was greatly
esteemed as lawyer and gentleman.
Str Fra ncis RonaIds, r. r.. q.
The English jourIiais record the occurrence Of
the death OF Sir Francis Ronalds, +. II. s.. the emf
nent scientist. at his residence, st. Mary's Villa,
Battle, Sussex. He expired In the eighty sixth
year OF his age.
Born in the year 1857 or early in 1885,. the son Of
a plain gentleman. at Highbury. and brought up at
o. school in Hertfordshire, where both mathematics
and the physical sciences were taught, he began
early to devote himself to the the theOTetlc study
of those subjects in the practical application Of
which, at u subsequent date, he rose to such
em hence. IL was IA nearly as possible sixty
years ago-namely. in 1913 or lsi4--that,
Lnc, French savant then engaged in series
OF electrical experiments he became SO interested
ton TO eecercity az the serious business of life
The researches which he made with the view OF
ascerta,amg the degrees Of quantity and cleo.
CLOCK To he kept In motion by electr ogalvfnic
power were described several years ago in the
pages OF the Philosophical Magazine Mr~Ronalds
also, IL Is said, was bold enough IN 1916, to pro-
pose the laying down OF one OF his electric tei0-
graphs between ST. James, Palace and Brighton
which at that time was the usual residence OF the
Prince Regens, but was snubbed by redtape re-
ply from Lord Melville and his brother Lords Of the
In use-vlz., the clumsy wooden apparatus that TIL
lately surmounted that department IN whitehall
and that no new one was wanted And so en-,
electric telegraph was "shelved" Tor q time, being
destined TO lie dormant until again it should be
woke up into action, or the nation woke up to mp
preciate 1t, by the conoined labors OF Cooke and
Wheatstone IL should in Justice to Sir Francis
R0nalds, he mentioned here that pamphlet which
he gave TO the world as far back as the year 1923
contained ull accounts not only OF his electric ee
graph, but OF an Improved electric machine, OF D.
new mode OF electric insulation, OF an electrograph
for recording electric changes, and a pendulum
dOubIer for the induction OF continued now OF cleo
trcity, together with his attempt to apply NJ. De
Lucs column 10 the measurement OF time and his
experimental observations on Mount Vesuvius and
In Sicily In 1925 he invented perspective trac-
Ing instrument to facilitate drawing from nature
or from plans and elevations. This machine was
wards, in order to procure exact perspective pro-
jecti0ns Of the Celtic remains In Brittany. In
1S43 he was appointed the nrst honorary director
OF the Observatory at Kew Gardens and the duties
OF this post he discharged with great zeal and
energy down to 1852, when ne retired, obtaining
at the same time a weli-merited pension on the
Civil List. Several years before this he had been
elected fellow of the Royal Society, In ackn0wl-
edgment OF his applications OF electrical science but
1t was not until 1870 that the man whose labOrs in
Geographic investigation, as stated in his patent,
had been alike "early' and REMARKABLY
received that small honor OF Knighthood. II only
remains to add that to his ingenuity are due sew
eral great improvements In instruments and meth
DDS of testing and recording the natural phe-
nomena, the atmospheric electric conductor, the
phOto-barograph, the photo-tbermograph, the
all varied applications OF one and the same dis
cOvery He described all these various Instruments
in the reports and transactions OF different learned
societies, and we believe that his, atmospheric
electric conductor has been adopted IN the OBJ
seryatorles OF Greenwich, Madrid and Bombay,
while his phOto-bar0graph and photo thermograph
are In at the Radcliffe Observatory at oxford.
In 1S45 he received a government reward for his
invention OF Photographic selfregistering meteoro
logical and magnelica Instruments.
ID. l.. Purvis.
D. L. Purvis, formerly foreign editor OF the Daflv
telegraph and a trenchant leader writer In moro
than one English liberal daily journal, has sue
cumbed to the overwork not uncommon In his pro-
iession. HIS health had been falling Tor some time,
and few months ago he had to ''ay himself up"
The hope that q respite would rcnvigorate HIM
was disappointed He was trained in the Edin-
burgh Scotsman Office and went 10 Fleet street
about SIX years ago. He soon commended himself
TO the conductors Of the Telegraph by his immense
capacity for work and his extreme versatility.
During the Franco-German war he specially distn-
| gushed himself Dy his summary OF the war news.