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Brompton; Lecturer on Practical Physiology in University College. He held the office of Jodrell Professor of Physiology in the same College from 1874 to 1882. On Nov. 29, 1882, he was elected Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford. He was Professor Superintendent of the Brown Institution from 1871 to 1878. Dr. Sanderson was employed by the Royal Commissioners to make investigations respecting the Cattle Plague, 1865-66; was sent by Her Majesty's Goverment to North Germany in 1865 to inquire into an Epidemic of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; and was occupied in an inquiry for a Royal Commission as to the influence of extreme heat on the health of workers in the Cornwall mines, in 1869. He is the author of various Reports on the above and other subjects in the Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council in 1860 and for several succeeding years; papers on physiological and pathological subjects read before ihe Royal Society, particularly an elaborate series of researches on the Electrical Properties of the Dionæa Muscipula; and "Hand-book of the Sphygmograph"—an instrument which he was the first to introduce into this country.
SANDFORD, The Right Rev. Charles Waldegrave, D.D., Bishop of Gibraltar, son of the late Archdeacon Sandford, born in 1828, received his academical education at Oxford, was for several years Senior Censor of Christ Church, became Commissary of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1869, and Rector of Bishopsbourne, Kent, in 1870. On the resignation of Bishop Harris he was nominated by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the See of Gibraltar, and was consecrated at Oxford, Feb. 1, 1874.
SANDFORD, The Right Rev. Daniel Fox, D.D., Bishop of Tasmania, third son of the late Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, D.C.L., sometime M.P. for Paisley, and Professor of Greek at Glasgow, was born in 1831. After taking orders he became incumbent of St. John's, Edinburgh; and, having been elected to the bishopric of Tasmania, he was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Benson), in St. Paul's Cathedral, April 25, 1883.
SANDWICH ISLANDS, King of the. (See Kalakana.)
SANDYS, John Edwin, M.A., son of the late Rev. T. Sandys (who was a missionary of the C.M.S. for nearly forty years in Bengal), was born May 19, 1844. He was educated at Repton School, and entered St. John College, Cambridge, as a minor scholar in 1863. He was elected first Bell's Scholar in 1864, obtained the Gold Medal for a Greek Ode on the "Art of Pheidias" in 1865, the Porson Prize for Greek Trochaics in 1865, and for Greek Iambics in 1866, and was twice awarded the Members' Prize for Latin Prose Composition: (1) for a Latin Oration on the death of Abraham Lincoln; (2) for a Latin Essay on the British Expeditions of Julius Caesar. In 1867 he graduated as Senior Classic, and was elected Fellow and Lecturer of St. John's College; and, on taking his M.A. degree in 1870, was appointed Tutor of his College, an office which he still holds. He was an examiner for the Classical Tripos on five occasions between 1871 and 1876, and was principal Classical Lecturer of Jesus College from 1867 to 1877. He resigned this last appointment after his election, Oct. 19, 1876, to the office of Public Orator of the University of Cambridge. In 1868 he edited the Ad Demonicum and Panegyricus of Isocrates; and afterwards (in conjunction with Mr. Paley) prepared for the Syndics of the University Press two volumes of "Select Private Orations" of Demosthenes; the second volume, which was mainly the work of Mr. Sandys, appeared in 1875, and included the six speeches, pro Phor-