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Old Testament Exegesis in the University of Leipsic, and author of Old and New Testament commentaries.

DUFF, David, D. D., in Edinburgh, August -; professor of church history. FEULLET, Octave, in Paris, December -; brilliant writer of the ideal school. and last imperial librarian.

FRICKEN, VON, Dr. William, in Wiesbaden, December 29; councillor of education. GERBER, VON, Dr., in Germany, December; minister of education in Saxony HUMBECK, VON, Pierre, July 5; first minister of public instruction in Belgium: author of the Liberal Education Code, which effected such progress before the reaction of 1884.

JOULE, Dr. James Prescott, an eminent scientist, noted for his treatment of the conservation of energy and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

LIDDEN, Henry Perry, September 9, aged sixty-one; canon of St. Paul's Cathe dral.

LUTZ, VON, Baron, ex-premier and minister of education, Bavaria: correspondent of the Bureau of Education.

MCGREGOR, —, April 25; principal of McMaster College, Ontario. NEESIMA, Joseph Hardy, LL.D., at Oiso, Japan, January 23, aged forty-seven: in his youth, desiring to learn of Christianity, he escaped from Japan, when such an act was punishable with death, and came to America on a vessel owned by Alpheus Hardy; was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, Amherst, and Andover Theological Seminary, at the expense of Mr. Hardy: was interpreter to the Iwakura Special Embassy on its visit to this country: was offered a place in the Japanese ministry, but declined; became missionary to Japan under the American Board: founded the Christian school in Kioto, under great difficulties, which was finally made a university.

ROGERS, James Thorold, in Oxford, England, October 13: was professor of economical science and statistics in King's College and professor of political econ omy at Oxford; was the author of a number of works, including Aristotle's Ethics, Economic Interpretation of History, Six Centuries of Work and Wages. and a history of agriculture and prices in England.

SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry, at Naples, December 26, aged sixty-nine; was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin; was famous as an explorer of Greek archæology: he made a fortune in trade and expended it in the study and collection of Greek antiquities, which he has described in his general works; has greatly contrib uted to the increase of interest in Greece and in old Troy.

SCHMITZ, Leonard, in England, June; formerly instructor to Prince of Wales; rector of high school, Edinburgh; was named for the professorship of Greek, Edinburgh University; classical examiner to the University of London.

BERG, —, in Copenhagen, December 2; a teacher, and leader of the radical wing in Parliament.

BOBIES, Rector, in Vienna, November 13; president of the Austrian Teachers' Association.

BUDOZIS, Dr. Friedrich, in Berlin, March 11; historian of Brandenburg. CIRIACY-WANTRUP, VON, Dr., in Arnsberg, Germany, July: school councilor and leader of the conservative party in school affairs.

CHADWICK, Edwin C. B., July 5; aged eighty-nine; an English social economist and lawyer; was assistant commissioner of the poor law commission: a member of the commission of inquiry into the labor of young persons in factories: in 1838 he made an inquiry into the causes of local diseases and the improvement of habitations in the metropolis.

COLLINS, George, at London, April 2; was a member of the London school board, master of model school and of methods in the borough training school, Borough-Road, and member of the editorial staff of the Schoolmaster.

CORCI, Carlo Maria, June 10; aged ninety-one; a Roman Catholic professor of theology at Rome.

COSSACK, Dr. K. W., in Dantzic. November; author of literature for schools.

DIETLEIN, Waldemar, Rector, in Dortmund, Germany, October 31; author of the best German readers.

ESSER, Dr., in Berlin, October; chief of division in the ministry of education. FISCHER, Dr., in Potsdam, July 19; well-known teacher of gymnastics.

FRICKE, F. William, in Weisbaden, March 28; promoter of spelling reform. FRISCHBIER, Hermann, at Königsberg, December 8; a promoter of the teachers' association.

GABELLI, Aristide, at Padua, October 7, aged sixty-one; a prominent educator. GAUTIER, Col. Emile, at Geneva, November 24, aged sixty-eight; an eminent astronomer and director of the Observatory, Geneva.

HASNER, Dr. Leopold (Ritter, von Artha), at Ischl, Austria, June5; the father of the modern school in Austria.

HAUPT, August, in Berlin, July 4; professor of music.

HÄUSELMANN, J., in Biel, Germany, March 18; a promoter of drawing. HEUMANN, G., in Gorlitz, Germany, March 21; superintendent of schools. KENNEDY, William, M. A., in Scotland, December; clerk to the school board of Glasgow.

KERN, Dr. Hermann, at Bruneck in the Tyrol, July 4, aged sixty-eight; was for many years director of the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin; was a scientific student and educator, and published several educational books, and for many years was a member of the board of examiners for positions in higher schools.

KOKOWOSKY DE, W., Lieut. Gen., September; founder and director of the Russian Museum of Pedagogy.

KUENEN, Abraham, in Germany, December 10, aged sixty-three; a professor of theology.

LANGENBERG, Eduard, in Berlin, February 16; pupil and biographer of Ad. Diesterweg.

MAGALHAES, Benjamin Constant Botelho, January 22; a prominent Brazilian educator and scientist, and founder of the Republic.

MOSELEY, Henry Nattridge, November 10, aged forty-seven; professor of anatomy at Oxford.

MÖWING, Regborg, in Königsberg, August 6; founder of the teachers' association. OEHLWEIN, Dr., in Weimar, October 10; a promoter of deaf-mute education. PACHECHO, D. Carlos, formerly minister of education, Mexico.

PATRICK, Brother (John P. Murphy), in Paris, April 25, aged sixty-nine; was born in Ireland; entered as novitiate into the order of the Christian Brothers at Montreal; was director of the Brothers' School, St. Louis, in 1861; was transferred to Manhattan College, New York, which institution prospered greatly under his care; his last position was that of second assistant to the superior-general of the Christian Brothers' schools.

PEDRO, DOM, II, ex-Emperor of Brazil, in Paris, December 4, aged sixty-six; became sovereign at the age of six, and abdicated in 1889. His tastes were scholarly, his ideas of government liberal; he established justice, encouraged schools, libraries, and colleges, traveled extensively, visited the United States, and was interested in the Bureau of Education, to whose chief he offered a decoration of the Empire.

PERUZZI, UBALDINO, in Italy, September 9; called the Modern Pericles.
PRESSENSE, DE, Edmond D., at Paris, April 8, aged sixty-seven.

PRANGE, William, in Breslau, March 25; school councilor and editor of Lübens
Pädag. Jahresbericht.

QUICK, R. H., M. A., in Surrey, England, March 9; was educated at Cambridge; assistant master at Harrow and Cranleigh, lecturer at Cambridge; writer of pedagogics: is known among teachers the world over by his Educational Reformers.

RJEDKIN, Peter, LL. D., in St. Petersburg, March 7, aged eighty-three; an eminent Russian scholar; was a graduate of the universities of Dorpat and Moscow; became the first professor of the Cyclopædia of Law at the University, Moscow; in 1863 was called to be professor ordinarius at St. Petersburg, published a History of Law and a History of Philosophy.

REE, Anton, Dr., in Hamburg, January 1; the well-known champion of the common schools.

SCHLAIKIER, in Meiningen, March 14; school councilor.

SCHUBERT, Otto, Rector, in Haynan, Germany, July 9; superintendent of schools.

THOMISSEN, Dr., in Brussels, November; ex-minister of public instruction.
TICHELMANN, Rector, in Königsberg, July 17; promoter of Pestalozzi societies.
TÖPLER, F., in Berlin, December 10; editor of educational journals.
VELHAGEN, Auguste, in Leipsic, December, aged eighty-two; a publisher of
books and atlases on the principle of "good and cheap."

WÄCHTER, Robert, in Rudolstadt, Germany, March 28; school councilor. WIDGERY, William Henry, M. A., England, assistant master in University College school, August 26; was born at Exeter, March 11, 1857; entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1874, and graduated seventh senior optime in the mathematical tripos; taught at Dover College; gained the Harness prize for essay on Hamlet, which was commended in the Atheneum; was second master at Brewer's School, E. C., London, and gained" prizes for Icelandic and Gothic;" in 1883 assumed the work which he continued until his death, meantime having studied in Berlin in 1886. His tract on teaching languages was republished and translated into other languages. His sketch of education at the Paris Exposition appears in this Report. He was librarian and an active member of the council of the Teachers' Guild. Friends have joined in creating a fund for a memorial to his memory.

WOLFF, Emil, Rector, in Apolda, Germany, February 16; a pedagogical author and editor of Allgemeine Schulblatt.

WULKOW, August, in Stettin, Germany, October 9; president of teachers' association.

ZAHN, Franz, Dr., in Mörs, Germany, July 9; the successor of Ad. Diesterweg in the Normal School at Mörs, and author of a Biblical history.

PART III.

STATISTICAL TABLES.

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TABLE 1.-Statistics of population, private schools, and public school enrollment,

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