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in Burlington, N. J., 18 Jan., 1799; d. in Florence, Italy, 18 MaTch, 1878, was graduated at Prince- ton in 1810, studied for the ministry, and was made deacon, 28 June, 1820, and priest, 20 March, 1821. His first charge was Christ church, George- town, D. C, where he labored zealously for five years. In 1825 he was appointed professor of ethics, and chaplain in the U. S. military acade- my. He accepted a call to St. Ann's church, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1827, and in 1881 was chosen to be professor of the evi- dences of revealed re- ligion and sacred an- tiquities in the Uni- versity of the city of New York. During his connection with the university he de- livered a valuable

course of lectures,

which were subsequently published. He was next elected bishop of Ohio, and was consecrated in St. Paul's chapel. New York city, 31 Oct., 1832. On removing to his diocese he became president of Kenyon college, and also of the theological seminary, at Gambler. . He received the degree of D. D. from Princeton and from Brown in 1832, that of D. C. L. from Oxford in 1858, and LL. D. from Cambridge in 1858. Bishop Mcllvaine was a member of the sanitary commission during the civil war, and did good service to his native land, when on a visit to Europe, in setting forth right views on the questions at issue in the United States. He was present at the Pan- Anglican council in London in 1867. As age drew on, he yielded to the neces- sity of having an assistant, and Dr. Gregory T. Bedell was elected to that ofiice in 1859. Infirm health led to his making another visit to Europe in 1872-3, but he died before he could reach home. Bishop Mcllvaine was an able and voluminous writer. His chief publications were " Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity " (New York, 1832), which have passed through thirty editions ; " Ox- ford Divinity compared with that of the Roman and Anglican Churches, with a Special View of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith " (Philadelphia, 1841); "The Holy Catholic Church" (1844): "No Priest, no Altar, no Sacrifice, but Christ," and

• ' Reasons for Refusing to Consecrate a Church

having an Altar" (1846); "Valedictory Offering, Five Sermons " (London. 1853) ; " The Truth and the Life, Twenty-two Discourses," published at the request of the convention of Ohio (New York, 1855), together with numerous occasional sermons, ad- dresses, pastoral letters, etc. He also edited " Select Family and Parish Sermons," from English sources (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1889).

McILVAINE, Joshua Hall, clergyman, b. in Lewis, Del., 4 March, 1815 ; d. in Roeliester, 80 Jan., 1897. He was graduated at Princeton, and at the theological seminary there, was pastor of Presby- terian churches at Little Falls, Utica, and Roches- ter, N. Y., professor of belles-lettres at Princeton in 1860-'70, and pastor of the High street church in Newark, N. J., in 1870-4. He introduced the name " Westminster" for churches in founding the church of that title in Utica. In 1859 he delivered a course of six lectures before the Smithsonian in- stitution on comparative philology in relation to ethnology, including an analysis of the structure of the Sanskrit language, and the process of decipher- ing cuneiform inscriptions. In 1869 he delivered a similar course on social science in Philadelphia under the auspices of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He had been a member for many years of the American oriental society, and in 1854 received the degree of D. D. from the LTniversity of Roches- ter, N. Y. In 1887 he founded at Princeton, N. J., Evelyn college for girls. His publications include " The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil " (New York, 1854) ; " Elocution, the Sources and Elements of its Power" (1870); "The Wisdom of Holy Scripture, with Reference to Sceptical Objec- tions " (1883) ; " The Wisdom of the Apocalypse " (1886), and religious and scientific articles.

McILWAlNE, Richard, clergyman, b. in Pe- tersburg, Va., 20 May, 1834. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney in 1853, studied at the University of Virginia, and received his theological education at the Virginia union theological seminary and at the college of the Free church of Scotland. He was licensed to preach in 1857, was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Amelia Court-House, Va., in 1857-60, of churches in Farmville and Lynch- burg, Va.. in 1862-'72. and at the latter date be- came co-ordinate secretary and treasurer of home and foreign missions in the southern Presbyterian church. He was secretary of home missions in 1882-'3, and since June, 1888, has been president of Hampden Sidney college, Va. He was a dele- gate to the Pan-Presbyterian council that was held in Belfast, Ireland, in 1884.

MacINNES, Donald, Canadian senator, b, in Oban, Argyleshire, Scotland, 26 May, 1824. He came to Canada in 1840, engaged in business in Dundas, and subsequently removed to Hamilton, and has been for years one of the foremost mer- chants and manufacturers of Canada. He was chairman of the royal commission that was ap- pointed 16 June, 1880, to inquire into the organi- zation of the civil service of Canada, and became a member of the Dominion senate. 24 Dec, 1881. Mr. Maclnnes is president of the Bank of Hamil- ton, of the Canada cotton company of Cornwall, and of the South Saskatchewan valley railway company. He is a Liberal Conservative.

McINNES, Thomas Robert, Canadian senator, b. at Lake Ainslie, Nova Scotia, 5 Nov., 1840. He was educated at the normal school of Truro, and at Harvard, became a physician, and practised for some time at Dresden, Ont. In 1874 he removed to British Columbia, and was mavor of the city of New Westminster in 1876-8. In May, 1874, he was appointed physician and surgeon to the Royal Columbia hospital, and in July, 1878, medical superintendent of the British Columbia lunatic asylum. Dr. Mclnnes was elected to the Dominion parliament for New Westminster, and was its rep- resentative from 26 March, 1878, until he was ap- pointed to the senate, 24 Dec, 1881. He is inde- pendent in politics.

McINTOSH, James McKay, naval officer, b. in McIntosh county, Ga., in 1792; d. in Warrington, Fla., 1 Sept., 1860, entered the U. S. navy in 1811, became lieutenant in 1818, commander in 1838, captain in 1849, and flag-officer in 1857. He served with credit in the war of 1812, and participated in the fight between the U. S. brig “Enterprise” and the British “Boxer” off the coast of Maine in December, 1813. In 1820 he was attached to an expedition for the extermination of the West Indian coast pirates, was captured by Lafitte, their chief, and, although threatened with burning at the stake if he refused to be the bearer of an insolent message to his commander, defied