and was formerly engaged in
the cotton trade in Boston. He was a member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and published several historical works.

December 22.--Rev. Daniel James Noyes, D. D., Professor Emeritus of
Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at Dartmouth
College, being in term of service next to the senior instructor in that
institution, died at Chester, N. H. He was born in Springfield, Sept.
17, 1812; was fitted for college at Pembroke, and was graduated from
Dartmouth in 1832; after graduation was a tutor at Columbian College at
Washington; was graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1836,
and then for one year was a tutor at Dartmouth. In 1837 he was ordained
to the ministry and installed pastor of the South Congregational Church
in Concord. In 1849 he was dismissed in order to accept the Phillips
Foundation Chair of Theology at Dartmouth, which he filled until 1869,
when he was transferred to the chair which he held at the time of his
death, having been Professor Emeritus since 1883. The University of
Vermont conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1854.

December 29.--Edwin D. Sanborn, LL.D., Winkley Professor Emeritus at
Dartmouth College of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature,
died in New York. He was born at Gilmanton, N. H., May 14, 1808, and was
the son of David Edwin and Harriet (Hook) Sanborn. He was fitted at
Gilmanton Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832. He
gained reputation as a teacher in the academies at Derry and Topsfield,
Mass., and at Gilmanton, being preceptor of the latter. In 1834 he
declined a tutorship at Dartmouth, and at Meredith Bridge began the
study of law, which he abandoned and entered the Andover Theological
Seminary. In 1835 he was a tutor at Hanover; then Professor of Latin and
Greek for two years, and later filled the chair of Latin alone from 1837
to 1859. Then he accepted the place of Professor of Latin and Classical
Literature at Washington University, St. Louis, where he remained four
years. In March, 1863, he returned to Hanover and became Professor of
Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. In 1880 he took the Winkley chair. Since
1882 he had been Professor Emeritus, his failing health preventing him
from performing the duties of that professorship. The deceased was
licensed as a Congregational minister, Nov. 1, 1836. The University of
Vermont in 1859 conferred upon him the degree of