OBITUARY.
LONDON, February 22. Mr Henry Duff Traill, editor of the Weekly Journal of Literature,; aged 58.
[Mr'H. D. Traill, D.C.L., besides having served on the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette, St. James's Gazette, Daily Telegraph, and Saturday Review, was editor of the Observer and Social England. His chief publications are as follow : — " Central Government " (English Citizen' Series), 1881 ; " Sterne " (English Men of Letters Series), 1882; " Recaptured Rhymes," 1882; "The New Lucian," 1884; "'Coleridge" (English Men of Letters), 1884 ; " Shaftsbury " (English Worthies), 1886; '-William III" (Twelve English Statesmen), 1888; "Stafford" (English Men of Action), 1889 ; " Saturday Songs," 1899 ; " Lord Salisbury " (Queen's Prime Ministers), 1891 ; " Number Twenty," 1892; " The Life of Sir John Franklin," 1896; "From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier," 1896: " Lord Cromer," 1897 ; " The New Fiction," and other essays on literary subjects, 1897.]
Dr Piazzi Smyth, ex-Astronomer Royal of Scotland ; aged 81.
[Dr Charles Piazzi Smyth, LL.D., Edin., F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E., was born in 1819 in Naples, and is the second of three sons of the late Admiral Smyth, but was educated in England. He commenced his astronomical service at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, under Sir T. Maclear, in 1835. He was appointed in IMS ,ta succeed. Th&m Uen&mm F«ei te-
troaomer Eoyal for Scotland, in the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. In ISSS he was appointed to prepare for the Government all the meteorological deductions furnished by 55 observatory stations. In 1856, soon after his marriage with Jessie Duncan, he spent several months in testing with her the qualities of the Peak of Teneriffe for star observation above the level of the clouds. In 1861-5 he visited and investigated the great Pyramid of Egypt. In 1871 he began to compose a comprehensive star catalogue end emphemeris of all the Edinburgh and best contemporary observations of the same stars. He applied for retirement, and obtained it, in August, 183S, and was awarded a small pension. Since then he and Mrs Piazzi Smyth have resided near Eipon.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 17
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