Garnett

James Mercer, an American philologist; born in Aldie, Va., April 24, 1840; was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1859; served in the Confederate army during the Civil War; was Profe or of English Language and Literature in the University of Virginia in 1882-1896, Garnett, Richard, an English philologist; born in Otley, Yorkshire, England, July 25, 1789. He had already tried commerce and the Church, when in 1838 he was appointed a istant keeper of printed books at the British Museum. One of the founders of the Philological Society, he contributed many striking papers to its ‘“« Proceedings.” He died Sept. 27, 1850.