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Trumbull, Jonathan. Born at Lebanon, Conn., Oct. 12, 1710: died there, Aug. 17, 1785. An American magistrate and patriot. He was a Whig leader in New England during the Revolutionary period, and was governor of Connecticut 1769-83. He was a friend and adviser of Washington, and is said to have been the original "Brother Jonathan," that being Washington's familiar name for him. Trumbull, Jonathan. Born at Lebanon, Conn., March 26, 1740: died there, Aug. 7, 1809. An 25, 1840: died at St. Petersburg, Nov. 6, 1893. Anoted Ru ian composer. In 1862, when the Conservatory of Music was founded at St. Petersburg, he gave up an official position to devote himself to music. He studied composition with Anton Rubin stein, and harmony and counterpoint with Zaremba; and from 1866 to 1878 was profe or of harmony, composition, and the history of music in the conservatory. From 1878 he gave himself entirely to composition. He visited England in 1881 and In 1891 he came to New York the invitation of the New York Symphony Society, and conducted a number of his own compositions. He wrote several operas and other music, but is best known from his "Fifth Symphony in E minor," "Fourth Symphony in F minor," "Third Suite," "Francesca da Rimini" (a symphonic poem), and his two overtures to "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet" respectively. His "Sixth Symphony" was not performed till after his death. Tschermak (cher'mäk), Gustav. Born at Littau, Moravia, April 19, 1836. A noted Austrian mineralogist, profe or at Vienna from 1868. He is a specialist in petrography, crystallography, and the study of meteorites, and has published "Lehrbuch der Miner a logie" (2d ed. 1885), etc., and numerous scientific IMG:content-1135.png:[blocks in formation] Tschudi, Ægidius most noted work is his "Chronic on helveticum," a Swi history of the period 1000–1470, published after his death (1734-36). Tschudi, Johann Jakob von. Born at Glarus, Switzerland, July 25, 1818: died in Jakobsthal, Oct. 8, 1889. A Swi naturalist, philologist, traveler, and diplomatist. He traveled in Peru 1838-43, and later again in South America; and was amba ador to Brazil 1860, and to Austria 1866-83. He wrote "Fauna Peruana" (1844-47), "Peru an is che Reise skizzen" ("Peruvian Travels, "1846), "Die Kechua-Sprache" (1853), "Reisen durch Südamerika" ("Travels through America," 1866-68), "Organism us der KechuaSprache" (1884), etc., and was part author of "Antiguëdades Peru an as" (1851). Tseng (tseng), Marquis. Born 1839: died April 12, 1890. A Chinese diplomatist, amba ador at St. Petersburg, Paris, and London. Tsimshian (tsim-she-än'). The principal division of the Chimmesyan stock of North American Indians, living mainly on Skeena River, western British Columbia. It embraces the Ts'emsian, Gyits'umralon, Gyits'alaser, Gyitqatla, Gyitgaata, and Gyldesdzo tribes, most of which comprise numerous subtribes, each inhabiting a single village. Also Chemsian ,