FERRIER, JAMES FREDERICK

(1808-64), Scot. philosopher: 6. Edin. burgh; prof. at Edinburgh and drews. (1782-1854), Scot. novelist; pub. ‘anonymously Marriage, 1818; The In-| her it ance, 1824; and Destiny, 1831. Exhibition, in 1892. It was a remarkable engineering feat. Its diameter was 270 feet and its circumference 825 feet. The axle was a steel bar 45 feet long and 2 feet thick. The 36 cars on the wheel each seated forty persons, the wheel| and pa engers _ weighing 1200 tons. | The wheel was imitated and exhibited | at later exhibitions. W.), ono of the Canary Tala; 0 Minds as first meridian chosen by Fr. sciontists, 1630. janes rd in free state, forming’ ferroformed by union of pota ium cyanide! to|and water in iron ve els, and used in manufac ture of blue dyes (Pru ian blue). with|Chief Span. naval arsenal; excellent peal 2g at nen Ge aU athe 1530), Florentine soldier; took Volterra, 1530; captured at Gavinana, and killed by Maramaldo.