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Reynolds (ROBERT M lawyer and diplomat)

ROBERT M., lawyer and diplomat, was born in Muskingum co., Ohio, Aug. 30, 1826. He received a classical education, removed to Illinois in 1847, and to Iowa in 1851. There he was principal of an academy and teacher of mathematics for ten years and also studied law. Married in 1850 Orpha W. Richardson, of La Harpe, Illinois.

Had six children, four sons, two daughters. He enlisted in the 1st Iowa Cavalry in 1861 and became a veteran by re-enlistment in 1864. He was three times wounded in action and was mustered out of service as a brigadier general by brevet in 1865. In that year he settled in Alabama. He was a memtion of 1867 and was admitted to the bar at Montgomery, Ala. In 1868 he was elected auditor of the state, and served for more than four years. was minister resident of the United States to Bolivia during 1874-77, and in 1878 was appointed first auditor of the U. S. treasury at Washington. Served as First Auditor in the Treasury until "Puck," "The Witch Scene from Mac-ber of the state constitutional convenfort." He suffered a slight attack of paralysis in 1782, and in 1789 his sight became affected. The following year was embittered by an unfortunate dispute with the Academy which led to his resignation of the presidentship, a resolution which he afterward considered and rescinded; and on Dec. 10, 1790, he de- " to the students. He died Feb. 23, 1792.

It is in virtue of his portraits that Reynolds ranks as the head of the English school of art. In the dignity of their style, the power and expressiveness of their handling, the variety and appropriateness of their attitudes, in the beauty of their coloring and the delicacy of their flesh-painting, his portraits have never been surpassed. His efforts in the higher departments of historical and imaginative art were less successful. In his technical methods Reynolds was unfortunately most careless and uncertain. He was continually experimenting in new processes and untried combinations of pigments, with the result that even in his own lifetime his works deteriorated, especially in their flesh-tints. Personally Reynolds was a man of fine and varied culture, and he was distinguished by an exquisite urbanity, the expression of a most amiable and equable disposition, which was exceptionally fitted to win and retain friendship.

He 2, 1885. March, 1885. Died in St. Louis, June RHÆTIA, a province of the Roman empire, which included great part of the Alpine regions between the valleys of the Danube and the Po, and corresponded with the districts occupied in modern times by the Austrian province of Tyrol and the Swiss canton of Grisons. The Rhætians, who are generally supposed to have been of Etruscan origin, were subdued by Drusus and Tiberius, 15 B. c.; and shortly afterward Rhætia was incorporated as a province in the Roman empire. During the last days of the Roman empire, when the barbarians devastated the provinces, Rhætia was nearly depopulated; and after the fall of the Roman empire it was occupied by the Alemanni and Suevi. gin, rius.

RHAMNACEÆ, an order of plants, classed by Lindley under his 44th or Rhamnal alliance. The calyx, which is four or five cleft, is valvate. The petals are as many and inserted into the orifice of the calyx; sometimes they are wanting. The stamens are four or five, and opposite to the petals; fruit berried or dry. The flowers are small and generally green. The order consists of trees and shrubs, often spiny. There are species in nearly all countries, with the exception of the Arctic zone. Known The first great collection of the works of Reynolds was brought together by the British Institution in 1813, and numbered 142 pictures. His authentic works have been estimated by Taylor to number between 2,000 and 3,000; and from these some 700 engravings have been B-Cyc Vol 8 RHAPSODIST genera 42, species 250 (Lindley); genera 37, species 430 (Sir Joseph Hooker). Berries belonging to various plants of the order have been used for dyeing yellow, green, or intermediate tints, others are eatable. One plant is used by the poorer classes in China for tea. Others have been employed as astringents, purgatives, tonics, sedatives, etc.