PROMINENT PERSONS
states of the Confederacy, much of the ma-
chinery used being of his own design. With
the close of the war and the defeat of the
cause he had so ably espoused. Dr. ]\lallet
returned to his profession, becoming a pro-
fessor in the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Louisiana, being in the service of
this institution from 1865 to 1868. From
the latter year until 1883 he was a profes-
sor in the University of Virginia, then was
lor one year a member of the faculty of the
University of Texas, afterward teaching in
Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia.
He returned to ihe University of Virginia
in 1885. The educational institutions and
learned societies that have honored Dr. Mal-
let with degrees and membership are many
and widely dispersed. He was the recipient
of the honorary degree of M. D. from the
medical department of the University of
Louisiana ; LL. D. from William and Mary
College (1872), the University of Missis-
sippi (1872), Princeton University (1896),
and Johns Hopkins University (1902J. He
is a fellow of the Royal Society of London ;
member of the English, French. German and
American Chemical Societies, having been
president of the American and vice-president
01 the Chemical Society of London ; asso-
ciate fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences (Boston) ; member of the
American Philosophical Society ; corre-
sponding member of the New York Acad-
emy of Sciences : member of the Academy of
Science (^^'ashington, D. C.) ; fellow of the
College of Physicians (Philadelphia); hon-
orary member of the Medical and Chirur-
gical Faculty of Maryland ; fellow of the
Medical Society of Virginia; and honorary
member of a Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) scien-
tific society and of two scientific societies
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of the City of Mexico. The most noted of
scientific journals have printed the results
of his researches along chemical lines, his
j.iapers numbering about one hundred : three
times a member of the United .States Assay
Commission, his professional skill has been
employed by the United States Board of
Health in the chemical analysis of certain
sources of water supply, and he is the
author of the following works; "British
Association Catalogue of Earthquakes" (in
collaboration with his father, 1852-54),
"Physical and Chemical Conditions of the
Cultivation of Cotton" (London, i860),
"Svliabus of a Course of Lectures on Gen-
eral Chemistry" (1890, second edition,
1901 ). Dr. Mallet is a member of the Prot-
estant Episcopal church, and, remaining a
British subject, never acquired political al-
legiance. He married (first) Mary Eliza-
beth Ormond, (second) Mrs. Josephine
(Pages) Burthe, and has children.
Christian, George Llewellyn, born April 13, 1841, in Charles City county, Virginia, son of Edmund Thomas Christian and Ta- bitha Rebecca Graves, his wife. His father's ancestor, Thomas Christian, settled in Charles City county, Virginia, in 1687, having come from a distinguished family in the Isle of Man His grandfather was Turner Chris- tian, who was a brother of Henry Christian, who was a captain in the revolutionary war. On his mother's side his ancestors were also English. Llis early education was obtained ar private schools, and in the Northwood and Taylorsville Academies of Charles City county. In 1861, when tw-enty years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army as a -private in the Second Company of the Rich- mond Howitzers, with which he served un-
