The first was presented to him by Lord Fitzhardinge at Lord's on 22 July 1879 in the form of a marble clock, two bronze ornaments and a cheque for £ 1, 458.

The Secretary of the Treasury was directed to " redeem, in coin " legal-tender notes presented for redemption on and after 1 January 1879.

In 1879 the Faculty of Medicine was presented with a project for a new hospital, and after many changes in the plans and suggested locations, it was eventually installed in the Hospital Clinic on the eastern side of the city's Eixample district in 1900.

The German mathematician Gottlob Frege ( 1848 – 1925 ) presented an independent development of logic with quantifiers in his Begriffsschrift ( formula language ) published in 1879, a work generally considered as marking a turning point in the history of logic.

In 1879 his eldest son, John Jacob Astor III, presented three lots adjoining the library building, and erected on them a third structure similar to the others, and added a story to the central building.

It had been presented in an abridged form at the house of Offenbach, 8 Boulevard des Capucines, on 18 May 1879, with Madame Franck-Duvernoy in the soprano roles, Auguez as Hoffmann ( baritone ) and Émile-Alexandre Taskin in the four villain roles, with Edmond Duvernoy at the piano and a chorus directed by Albert Vizentini.

The first electric passenger train was presented by Werner von Siemens at Berlin in 1879.

Jules Verne in the 1879 novel The End of Nana Sahib ( also published as The Steam House ) presented a fictional account of how he met his end and why this remained a secret.

On 11 January 1879, British troops crossed the Tugela, near Fort Pearson, after the British had presented Cetshwayo with an ultimatum he could not accept.

However, after eight years, there were problems with the organ house and the Schulze organ was loaned to St. Peter's Church, Harrogate ; 2two years later, in 1879, it was sold and presented to St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley.

A statue of the goddess Sabrina was presented by the Earl of Bradford in 1879.

The church of St. Mary is a plain but ancient building of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small western tower containing 2 bells: the screen is 12th century, lit by a 14th century dormer window: the roof is 14th century ; the stained east window was presented by Mrs. Marriot, in 1879, and there are memorial windows to Mrs. Tylor, of Callow Hill, who died in 1881.

It was so active a customer of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, the country's second largest locomotive maker, that in 1879 the firm presented L & N with a free locomotive as a thank-you bonus.

Bought at Sotheby ’ s on 21 December 1879 ( lot 275 ) for £ 1-12s-0d by Viscount Dillon, he presented it to the Royal United Service Institute Museum c. 1920.

It was originally presented as the first in a series of nine lectures and later published in Toronto, Canada beginning in 1879 and republished in New York during 1880.

At the opening ceremony in 1879 the mayor turned the fountain on with a silver key presented by Steble, but the water pressure was low and the effect was " dismal ".

During 1879 the Japanese government presented a representation of their national literature, embracing the standard works of poetry, fiction, geography, history, religion, philology, together with an assortment of ornamental designs ; through Viscount Cranbrook, secretary for India in Beaconsfield's cabinet, the library received a large collection of official publications relating to India ; New Zealand, New South Wales, Canada, Italy, France, Prussia were moved also to make valuable contributions of documents and statistical material.

On 17 June 1879 a further demonstration was carried out at the Navy Yard, during which the weapon was presented by Francis A. Pratt and Amos Whitney.

His annual reports on Oriental science, presented to the society from 1840 to 1867, and collected after his death in Paris on 3 January 1876, under the title Vingt-sept ans d ' histoire des études orientales ( Paris, 1879 ), are an admirable history of the progress of Eastern learning during these years.

Then in 1879 they began a long association with John Hare as joint-managers of the St. James's Theatre, where they presented a large number of Arthur Wing Pinero plays, among many others.

As a result of these social reforms the Liberal-Labour MP Alexander Macdonald told his constituents in 1879, " The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty.

The period from 1879 to 1899 saw power in the hands of moderate republicans and former " radicals " ( around Léon Gambetta ); these were called the " Opportunists ".

In the course of these expeditions, in 1879 a station was founded in Kigoma on the eastern bank of Lake Tanganyika, soon to be followed by the station of Mpala on the opposite western bank.

In 1879, many of these works were compiled into a work entitled The Pure Theory of Foreign Trade: The Pure Theory of Domestic Values.

Approximately 150 unauthorised productions of Pinafore sprang up in the United States in 1878 and 1879, and none of these paid royalties to the authors.

The oldest of these parks, Deering Oaks, had been designed by City Engineer William Goodwin in 1879 but is today frequently described as a Frederick Law Olmsted designed park.

Early settlements sprung up around waterways, but as the railroad and train depot became a reality in 1879, the town centered around these landmarks.

A change is noticeable the next year, 1879, in the Annunciation and in the four pictures making up the second series of Pygmalion and the Image ; the former of these, one of the simplest and most perfect of the artist's works, is subdued and sober ; in the latter a scheme of soft and delicate tints was attempted, not with entire success.

The 1879 tariffs protected these interests, stimulated economic revival through state intervention and refurbished political support for the conservative politicians Bismarck and John A. Macdonald ( the Canadian prime minister ).

In 1879 these were complemented by the Melton Line via, which continued to Nottingham through, thus providing Nottingham with an alternative route for London trains north of.

The last of these had a son, Richard Hayward Kidd, who was Colonial Chaplain of Hong Kong until his death in 1879.

Robert Woods Bliss ( 1875 – 1962 ), who with his wife, Mildred Barnes Bliss ( 1879 – 1969 ), had given Dumbarton Oaks to Harvard University in 1940 to establish a scholarly research institute and museum in Byzantine studies, was instrumental in arranging for these meetings.

:" While we have during these years been blessed with many things, affliction again visited us in the loss of a boy, born on the 19th day of January, 1879.

The most extraordinary of these, and Furness's masterpiece, was the Provident Institution in Walnut Chestnut Street, built as late as 1879.

In this treaty, the Canadas were allowed to impose tariff duties more favourable to a foreign country than to Britain, a precedent that was extended by new tariffs in 1859, 1879, and 1887 despite angry demands on the part of British industrialists that these tariffs be disallowed by London.

The first bridge ( the Hōrai Bridge ) across the river connected these two towns in 1879, after the Meiji Restoration.

One of these, " Aveugle par Ac-Sedan ", a French pun on " accidentally blind " and " Bungler at Sedan ", put its creator, Émile Cohl, in jail on October 11, 1879, making him instantly famous.

Following the depression of 1879 and the subsequent fall in prices ( and hence profits ), these farmers were threatened with rising rents and eviction for failure to pay rents.

Of these, the major ones are: William Dunbar's Works ( 2 vols., 1834 ), with a supplement added in 1865 ; Robert Baillie's Letters and Journals ( 3 vols., 1841-1842 ); John Knox's Works ( 6 vols., 1846 — 1864 ); Poems and Fables of Robert Henryson ( 1865 ); Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland ( 3 vols., 1872-1879 ); and Sir David Lyndsay's Poetical Works ( 3 vols., 1879 ).

In his History of Hertfordshire in 1879, John Edwin Cussans commented " Notwithstanding that these meetings are under the most unexceptional patronage as regards the Stewards, yet for two days in the year all the London pickpockets, sharpers and blackguards who happen to be out of gaol are permitted to make Harpenden their own and to make travelling in a first-class carriage on the Midland Railway a danger to men and an impossibility to ladies.

The IRFU was formed in 1879 as an amalgamation of these two organisations and branches of the new IRFU were formed in Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

In 1879 the provost and senior fellows of Trinity College published for him a volume in which a number of these articles were collected under the title of Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy.

New Zealand Railways ( NZR ) was a major customer from 1879 when it imported six 2-8-0 based on the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives due to their similar rail gauge, these were given the road class of T. The next was a double emergency order of six 2-6-2 classed N and six 2-8-0 classed O after a British order for similar locomotives failed to meet ontime delivery and weight limitations specified in contract.

Shown one of these, Matthias Rice, who ran a fancy woodworking business in Boston, started manufacturing the puzzle sometime in December 1879 and convinced a " Yankee Notions " fancy goods dealer to sell them under the name of " Gem Puzzle ".