Jolin Brown

Jolin Brown, an English author, born at Rothbury, Northumberland, Nov. 5, 1715, killed himself, Sept. 23, 1766. He was educated at Cambridge, and during the rebellion of 1745 acted with much gallantry as a volunteer on the royal side. He afterward became rector successively at Moreland, Great Horkes-ley, and Newcastle. He was preparing to go to Russia, on the invitation of Catharine II., to aid in establishing a system of education, when an attack of gout and rheumatism caused him to commit suicide. His works include " Essays on the Characteristics of the Earl of Shaftesbury," a tragedy called "Barbarossa," an "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times," which passed through seven editions in one year, a " History of the Rise and Progress of Poetry," and "Thoughts on Civil Liberty, Licentiousness, and Faction".

Jolui Nollerevs

Jolui Nollerevs, an English sculptor, born in London, Aug. 11, 1737, died there, April 23, 1832. He was the son of an Antwerp painter who settled in London; and he acquired his art in the studio of the sculptor Scheemakers. In 1759-60 he obtained several prizes from the society of arts, and afterward spent ten years in Rome, returning to London in 1770. lie executed portrait busts of many eminent men, several monumental works, and a number of statues of classical subjects, the best of which is the "Venus combing her Hair."His best known work is the statue of William Pitt at Cambridge. He amassed a fortune of £200,000, and, being childless, bequeathed the greater part of it to his friends Francis Palmer and Francis Douce the antiquary. His life has been written by Allan Cunningham in the " Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," and by his pupil J. T. Smith (2 vols., London, 1828).

Jonas Clark

Jonas Clark, an American clergyman, born at Newton, Mass., Dec, 25, 1730, died Nov. 15, 1805. He graduated at Harvard college in 1752, and afterward officiated as pastor at Lexington, Mass. It was only a few rods from his door that the first blood was shed in the revolutionary struggle, April 19, 1775. He published a sermon on the first anniversary of the battle, 1776. He was an ardent patriot, and as a preacher was distinguished for his fervor.

Jonas Dryander

Jonas Dryander, a Swedish naturalist, born in 1748, died in London, Oct. 19, 1810. He was educated at the university of Gothenburg, and took his degree of doctor in philosophy at Lund in 1776, on which occasion he published a dissertation in opposition to the theory that fungi might be the production of animals. He became the friend and pupil of Linnaeus; and visiting England as a private tutor, he resided with Sir Joseph Banks after 1782 as his librarian. He was also librarian of the royal and Linnaean societies, of the latter of which he was one of the founders. He wrote several papers on botanical subjects, and superintended the publication of the Hortus Kewensis and Roxburgh's "Plants of the Coast of Coromandel." He was an accomplished bibliographer, and his Catalogus Bibliothecoe Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks, Baroneti (5 vols., London, 1796-1800), is a model of arrangement.