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in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855 were intrusted to him, and he drew up a similar report, when the Cross of the Legion of Honour was bestowed upon him. In 1858 Her Majesty appointed him surveyor of Crown pictures, and he has since been engaged in preparing a complete catalogue of all such works of art belonging to the Crown. At the International Exhibition of 1862 the task of selecting and arranging specimens of British painting for the last hundred years was confided to him, and the works of native British artists, from Hogarth to the present day, were honourably contrasted with those of painters of other countries. These labours led to the preparation, in conjunction with his brother, Mr. S. Redgrave, of a history of British art, from the time of Hogarth to that first international gathering, under the title of "A Century of Painters," 1866. He was afterwards enabled, by gifts to, and purchases on the part of, the nation, to form an historical collection of water-colour paintings at the Kensington Museum. Mr. Redgrave resigned his appointment as keeper of the Royal pictures, and his connection with the Department of Science and Art in 1880. His more recent pictures, exhibited at the Academy, are:—"Sermons in Stones," "Startled Foresters," and " Tranquil Waters," 1874; "Starting for a Holiday," "The Wreck of the Forest," and "The Mill Pool," 1875; "Calling the Sheep to Fold," "To Market below the Hill," and " he Oak of the Mill Head," 1876; "Deserted," "Help at Hand," and "A Well-spring in the Forest," 1877; "The Heir come of Age," and "Friday Street, Wotton," 1878.

REED, Sir Edward James, K.C.B., M.P., born at Sheerness, Sept. 20, 1830, was educated at the School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, Portsmouth, served in a subordinate capacity in Sheerness dockyard, and was afterwards editor of the Mechanics' Magazine. He paid great attention to naval architecture, on which he became an authority, and was induced to accept the Secretaryship of the Institution of Naval Architects. He submitted to the Admiralty proposals to reduce the dimensions, cost, and time required for building our iron-clads, and was soon after appointed Chief Constructor of the Navy. In about three years he designed iron-clad ships for the British navy, amounting to an aggregate of 35,000 tons; a large iron-clad frigate for the Turkish government; a fleet of steam-transports for the service of our Indian government, consisting of five ships of 4,000 tons each, a paddle despatch-steamer of war, and numerous tugs, life-boats, and other smaller vessels. After four years of further service as Chief Constructor, Mr. Reed, whose objections to rigged sea-going turret ships were well known, found these vessels so much in favour, that he resigned his office in July, 1870. His resignation was made remarkable by the capsizing of the turret ship Captain a few weeks afterwards. Mr. Reed was afterwards engaged in private pursuits, visiting occasionally the foreign dockyards of Europe. He was returned to Parliament in the Liberal interest as member for the Pembroke boroughs at the general election of Feb., 1874. He represented that constituency till April, 1880, when he was returned for Cardiff. He received the Companionship of the Bath from the Queen of England; the Star of the Imperial Order of St. Stanislas (1st class) from the Emperor of Russia; the Star and Ribbon of the Medjidie (2nd class) from the Sultan of Turkey, and the Knight Commandership of the Imperial Ortler of Joseph from the Emperor of Austria. He is the author of works on Practical Ship-building, Iron-cased Shjps, and