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Rau, Charles

archæologist, author, was born in 1826 in Belgium. He was an archæologist of distinction of Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848, and was curator of antiquities in the United States National museum in 1875- 87. He was the author of Early Man in Europe; and Prehistoric Fishing. He died July 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rauch, John Henry

physician, author, was born Sept. 4, 1828, in Lebanon, Pa. In 1857 he was professor of materia medica and medical botany in the Rush Medical college of Chicago, Ill.; and in 1859 filled the same chair in the Chicago College of Pharmacy, of which he was one of the organizers. His chief work as a writer is embodied in the reports of the Illinois state board of health in eight volumes.

Raue, Charles Godlove

physician, educator, author, was born May 11, 1820, in Saxony. From 1864 till 1871 he was professor of pathology and practice at the Homœopathic college of Pennsylvania, and at Hahnemann Medical college in Philadelphia. He is the author of Special Pathology and Diagnostics with Therapeutic Hints; and Annual Record of Homœopathic Literature.

Ravenel, Henry William

botanist, author, was born May 19, 1814, in St.

John's Parish Berkeley, S. C. He was a botanist of Aiken, S. C., distinguished for his knowledge of fungi; and was the author of Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati; and Fungi Americani Exsiccati. He died July 17, 1887, in Aiken, S. C.

Ravenel, St. Julien

chemist, surgeon, was born Dec. 15, 1819, in Charleston, S. C. He was surgeon-in-chief of the confederate hospital in Columbia, and was director of the confederate laboratory in that city for the preparation of medical supplies. At the close of the war he returned to Charleston, and in 1866 he discovered the value of the phosphate deposits in the vicinity of that city for agricultural purposes. He died March 16, 1882, in Charleston, S. C.

Ravenscroft, D. W

author, poet, was born in 1852 in California. Under the nom de plume of The Exile he has contributed upwards of a thousand poems to current literature. He is the author of The Spirit of Unrest; Idyls; and several novels.

Rawle, Francis

author, was born in 1660 in England. He was a Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich is said to have been the first book printed by Franklin. He died March 5, 1727, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rawle, Francis

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1846, in Mifflin county, Pa. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. He has published two revised editions of Bouvier's Law Dictionary, in which are given over seven hundred subjects not named in the original work.

Rawle, Henry

soldier, lawyer, manufacturer, iron master, was born Aug. 21, 1833, in Mifflin county, Pa. He engaged extensively in the coal and iron business in Erie, Pa., and established the Erie blast-furnace and Erie rolling-mill.

In 1874-76 he was mayor of Erie, and from 1870 till 1878 he was treasurer of Pennsylvania.

Rawle, William

lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1759, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distinguished lawyer. of Philadelphia; and the author of View of the Constitution of the United States; and The Study of the Law. He died April 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rawle, William

lawyer, author, was born July 19, 1788, in Philadelphia, Pa. As reporter of the state supreme court, he published twenty-five volumes of reports. He died Aug. 9, 1858, in Montgomery county, N. Y.