The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-17
LIEUTENANT MURRAY s. DAY, U. s. N.

Mail advicos FROM Panoma record the death on tho
United States steamship vandalia Of distinguished
officer of the naval service OF the United States Lieu
tenant Murray 8 Day. son Of General Hannibal Day.
of New York city. and grandson OF the late Dc.
Sylvester Day surgeon. OF the United States Army,
Lieutenant Day was born at Buffalo barracks. April
II. lSA5; was appointed to the Naval Academy
from Massachusetts in 1861. graduated in 1865
and made his first cruise In the Sacramento. which
was wrecked of Bombay in 1856. He. with other
officers and number of sick. escaped on . raft and
Aostsd hfty.threo hours without food drink. until
rescued by English stesmer. He next sailed in
the Powhatan. of the Pacific squadron; was at Lima
at the timo of tho great earthquake and tidal
that coast. when he was sent to relieve the sufferers.
In 1871 ne officer Of the Hassler which carried
the Agassix scientific expedition. and i'll the same
year selected for bis scientific sttainments for
appointment, under the Japanese government to-
task which he performed to the entire satisfaction
of that government making ut the same
time valuable chronological researches. He was
afterward connected with tho Trenton on
the European station and the Vandalia on the West
India station. and contractcd ~ st. Thomas .
malarial poisoning which resulted in the attack Ok
typhoid fever from which he died. Lieutenant Day
was OF magnificent physique. talented. &C.
but tcnder and acctionate in all domestic relations
His wife. who survives him. is adsughter Of Gem
Army. and he leaves two children.
COMMANDER GEORGE cHAwoHTH MUsrrRs. n. N.
Commander q. G. Musters an adventurous travel-
Ter In Patagonia Bolivia aud othor little known por-
tions Of South America and lately appointed British
Consul at Mozambique. died In England. January Is.
in tho thirty eighth year Of his ago. He was .
grandson of Lord Byron's first love, Mary Ammo
Chaworth. Of Annesley Park. near Newstead
Abbey. whose romantic tale is familiar to all
admirers Of tho poet She WAS q distant
cousin of Byron. but there blood feud between
tho families her great uncle having been killed By
the great uncle Of the poet. Their intercourse
consequently prohibited. aud u marriage. which
would probably have influenced for good the whole
tenor OF the poets career. thereby prevented.
byron himself used TO refer 70 this youthful passion
as tho turning point of his lifo." Mary Anne Cha
worth two years his senior. having been
born in 1855. She married wealthy
proprietor, Mr.. Mustcrs. Of wiverton. and
LIVED 70 good oid age; Inc present rcpresentstvs
nesley aud Colwick. Nottinghauishirc. an elder
brother of the gentleman just deceased. Commands
Musters born in 1871. entered the British navy
at an carly ago. and had adventurous caresr In
many remote PORTIONS OF tho earth. His volume.
"At Home with the Pat.gonians." published
data to be found In England upon that desolAte re-
gion, and had prepared work on Bolivia which
o had lately returned from another visit to Bolivia.
whore he had invested in mining stocks. ana wss
about prOcceu African coneulaxo ~ the tAxno
OF his death. Hc unmarried.
M. PRrssE D'AvKNNEs, TRRNcH BoyproLodrsr.
Tho eminent Egyptoiogist. NJ Prissc dAvenness
whose death occurred ut Paris about ths 10Th ult.
was less sting for his profound acquaintance
with hieroglyphical idioms and photography than
for his enterprise and success asean explorer OK
Notic archaeological treasures thirty forty years
aoo He wss also prominent among his colleagues
I'm the science for the artistic skill beauty and adcy
with which no copied the Egyptian inscriptions and
other antiquities. In which respects the Late
Mr. Joscph Donomi was his only possible
rival His great work. tho monuments
was the fruit OF several years
Of travel In the land of tho Pharoahs during which
Mr. Ccoroe Lloyd, Of Brynestyn, was his constant
companion. II was published ut Paris In 1sA7 and 10
likely TO remain an Indispensable book Of reference
which IL belongs. OF tho nifty fnc plates comprised
in this handsome folio volume the first represents
the Great, which obclisk Pharoah erected 1t Kari
max. The table OF kings. more than sixty in
number, which. In spite Of the oblitcration Of
light on the succession q the dynasties, A. Prisse
carried of bodily to Paris In 1Si4 and presented to
tho Royal. or as 1t Is now styled. the National LIZ
brary. He further enriched tho magnificent
collection with the pos book 10 be found
In that any other library in the world. The
Prisse Papyrus written In the hieratic or literary
script, OF which 1t Is imneasurably the most
archaic specimen known, will never cease to
pcrpctuae his name. IL was purchased-by him "a
Thebes. having been found in . neighborine tomb
dating from the tenth or eleventh Egyptian dynasty.
But the authorship Of the didactic piece which ills
the greater part OF the document belongs to Prince
ptakhotcp. son Of Tatkara ASA. the pcnuitimats
attempt 10 translate Il by Mr.. Dunbar Heath, M
Chabas succeeded better In his monograph entitled
The Oldest Book W the World