Ellet. I. William Henry, an American chemist, born in New York about 1804, died there, I Jan. 26, 1859. He graduated at Columbia college in 1824. While pursuing his medical studies he gained a gold medal for a disserta-tion on the compounds of cyanogen. In 1832 he became professor of experimental chemistry in Columbia college, and in 1835 of chemistry, ! mineralogy, and geology in the South Carolina college. In 1848 he returned to New York, where he resided until his death. The legislature of South Carolina presented him with a service of silver plate for the discovery of a new and cheap method of preparing gun cotton. During the last five years of his life he was consulting chemist of the Manhattan gas company of New York. II. Elizabeth Fries Lumniis, an American authoress, wife of the preceding, born at Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario, N. Y. She has published a volume of poems (1835), "Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily" (1840), "Characters of Schiller" (1841), "Women of the American Revolution " (1848), "Evenings at Woodlawn," "Family Pictures from the Bible " (1849), "Domestic History of the American Revolution" (1850), " Watching Spirits" (1851), "Pioneer Women of the West" (1852), "Novellettes of the Musicians" (1852), "Summer Rambles in the West" (1853), " Women Artists in all Ages and Countries" (1861), "Queens of American Society" (1867), and " Court Circles of the Republic " (with Mrs. R. E. Mack, 1869). She also edited "The Practical Housekeeper," and has contributed largely to periodicals.