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tant scientific investigations of such an account will be found in the publications of the Royal, Astro- nomical, Chemical, and other learned societies. He established an observatory at Cranford, Middle- sex, but this was dismantled in 1873, and the instruments presented to the University of Oxford. Mr. De} La Rue has distinguished him- self by the eminent success with which he has applied photography of the recording of celestial phe nomena. In 1860 he went to Spain with the "Himalaya expedition," He succeeded in obtaining a series photographs of the total eclipse of the sun, July 18. These photo- graphs, especially those obtained during the total eclipse, are of high scientific interest. The discussions of the results of the photographic expedition formed the subject of the Bakerian lecture, read at the Royal Society in April, 1862, and since published in their Transactions. He published, in connection with Mr. Balfour Stewart and Mr. B. Loewy, " Re- searches in Solar Physics," founded observations made at the Kew observatory under his directions. He also took an active part in mak- ing the preparations for the photo- graphic observation of the transit of Venus in 1874. In that year he established a private Physical Laboratory in which he has, in connection with his friend. Dr. Hugo W. Muller, carried on an elaborate series of researches on the electrical discharge with the chloride-of -silver battery. The results obtained have been, from time to time, communi- cated to the Royal Society, and the Académie des Sciences, Paris. On Jan.. 31, 1881, he delivered a most interesting lecture on "The Phenomena of the Electric Discharge," illustrated by a great number of itif ul experiments, at the Royal litution. In this lecture, in ch a full and epitomized ac- it of his researches was given, ised 14,400 cells (14,832 volts). \

The battery now at work in his laboratory consists of 15,000 cells (15,450 volts), and gives a current of 0*4 Ampere. This battery has nearly five times the potential of any con- structed previously by other workers in electricity. Mr. De la Bue acted for some time as Honorary Secretary of the Boyal Astronomical Society? and has been its President, 1864-66. He was the President of the Chemi- cal Society, 1867-69 and 1879-80; and is President of the London Institution. He was elected Secre- tary of the Boyal Institution in 1878, in succession to Mr. William Spottiswoode, who had become President of the Boyal Society. On Dec. 27> 1880, he was elected a corresponding member of the French Academic des Sciences, for the section of astronomy.

DENISON, The Ven. Gkobge Anthony, Archdeacon of Taunton, fourth son of the late John Deni- son, Esq., M.P., brother of the late Viscount Ossington, of the late Bishop of Salisbury, and of the late Sir William Denison, K.C.B., Governor of Madras, was born in 1805. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1826, taking a first-class in classical honours ; in 1828 was elected Fellow of Oriel College; in the same year was University prizeman, gaining the Latin Essay, and the English Essay in 1829. He was curate of Cuddesden, Oxfordshire, from 1832 to 1838 ; married in 1838 Georgiana, eldest daughter of the Bight Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P. for Oxon ; and became vicar of Broadwindsor, Dorset, whence he was transferred, in 1845, to the vicarage of East Brent, Somerset, and became Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who advanced him in 1851 to the Archdeaconry of Taunton. He has been an active member of the London and Bristol "Church Unions," and a strong opponent of all schemes of Govern- ment education. In 1853^ in