Chauvenet
WILLIAM, an American astronomer and mathematician; born in Milford, Pa., May 24, 1819. He was graduated at Yale in 1839, and became instructor in mathematics at the Philadelphia Naval Asylum in 1841, pro- Philadelphia fessor of mathematics and astronomy at the United States Naval Academy in 1845, and professor of astronomy at Washington University, St. Louis, in the last institution. He wrote "Spherical and Practical Astronomy," "Elementary Geometry," and similar works. He died in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 13, 1870. (1374), "Troilus and Cressida" (1380- 1859. In 1862 he became chancellor of 1382), "The Legend of Good Women" (1385), "The House of Fame" (1386), etc., some of which are founded on French or Italian works. He also trans- | lated "Boethius." He died in London, Oct. 25, 1400, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
CHAUDIÈRE (shōd-yār'), a river and lake of Canada. The river joins the St.
Lawrence from the S., 7 miles above Quebec, and, 2½ miles from its mouth, forms the celebrated falls of Chaudière.
The lake-merely one of the many expansions of the Ottawa-has on its right the city of that name, the capital of the Dominion.