Sir Henry Thompson

Sir Henry Thompson, an English surgeon, born at Framlingham, Suffolk, Aug. 6, 1820. He was educated at University college, London, became assistant surgeon of the college hospital in 1853, surgeon in 1863, and professor of clinical surgery in 1866, and was knighted in 1867. He has published " The Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra" (London, 1853; 3d ed., 1869); "The Enlarged Prostate, its Pathology and Treatment" (1857; 2d ed., including the Jacksonian prize essay of the royal college of surgeons for I860, 1861; 3d ed., 1868); "Practical Lithotomy and Lith-otrity" (1863; 2d ed., 1871); and "Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs " (1868; 2d ed., 1870).

Sir Howard Douglas

Sir Howard Douglas, an English general, born in Gosport, Hampshire, July 1, 1776, died at Tunbridge Wells in November, 1861. He entered the army at an early age, served in the Walcheren expedition, and in the Spanish and Portuguese campaigns of 1808-12. He succeeded his brother as third baronet, May 24, 1809, and was governor of New Brunswick from 1823 to 1829, lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands from 1835 to 1840, and member of parliament for Liverpool from 1842 to 1847. In 1851 he was raised to the rank of general. He was the author of several valuable works on military science, among which are an essay " On the Construction of Military Bridges," etc. (1816), "A Treatise on Naval Gunnery" (1819), and one on "Naval Evolutions" (1832). In a fourth edition of his "Naval Gunnery" (1855) he reviewed very severely the operations in the Crimea.

Sir James Edward Smith

Sir James Edward Smith, an English botanist, born in Norwich, Dec. 2, 1759, died there, March 17, 1828. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, purchased the books, manuscripts, and herbarium of Linnaeus, commenced the practice of his profession in London, received the degree of M.D. at Leyden, and in 1788 founded the Linmean society of London, of which he was the first president. In 1796 he returned to Norwich, though he lectured on botany for two months each year at the royal institution. He wrote "English Botany" (36 vols., with 2,592 colored figures by Sowerby, London, 1792-1807); Flora Britannica (3 vols., 1800-'4); " Exotic Botany" (2 vols., 1804-'5); "Introduction to Systematical Botany" (1807); and "The English Flora" (3 vols., 1823-'5); and he edited Sibthorp's Flora Groeca (1808).

Sir James Lancaster

Sir James Lancaster, an English navigator, born about 1550, died in 1620. He sailed from Plymouth April 10, 1591, with three vessels, visited Ceylon and Sumatra, and dispossessed the Spanish and Portuguese trade,He was appointed to command the first expedition sent out by the English East India company, sailing from Torbay in 1601, with five vessels, and returned to England in 1603, having established commercial relations with the princes of Bantam in Java and Acheen in Sumatra. He entered warmly into the projects for discovering a N. W. passage to India, and strongly urged the government to attempt it. Baffin named after him a sound opening into Baffin bay.. Lancaster was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.