SLUYS, BATTLE OF

naval battle, June 24, 1330, when English under Edward III. defeated Fr, fleet commanded by Quiéret and Béhuchet. (1854), university dean; 6. at Buck field, Me.;s. of Rev. Albion K. P. and Thankful Woodbury Small. He was educated at Colby, Newton ‘Theol. Instn., Johns Hopkins, and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. After being connected with various colleges, including president of Colby, from 1889-92, he became a ociated with the University of Chicago in 1892 and was dean of the Grad. Sch. Arts. and Lit. there from 1905. TON (1838-1916), an American journalist; 6. in Franklin, Ma . | He served through the Civil War as war_correspondent. In 1867 he became London correspondent of the New York Tribune. In 1895 he was American correspondent for the London Times. He had a wide lknowledge of public matters and wrote much in relation to them. SIMALL-POX, VARIOLA, acute contagious disease, caused by a microorganism not yet discovered, characterized by fever and the appearance on the body of an eruption, which pa es through the stages of papule, vesicle, pustule, and scab. The early history of the disease is obscure, but it has been known in Asia from a very early period, and seems to have spread throughout Europe at the time of the Crusades, was known in England before XIII. cent., and was introduced into America by the early Span. explorers. The incubation period is about twelve days, the first symptoms being ape often scribed, varying with the extent and character of the eruption, mid, discrete, confluent, haemorrhagic, and malignant, death usually resulting in the last at an early stage. The case mortality in s. of persons who have been vaccinated is about 5 per cent., while of the unvaccinated it is 37 per cent.; and the disease is no longer a disease of childhood, as it was before vaccination was introduced, but a disease of adult life.