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CLARE — CLARK 105 Richard II. and Henry IV., and was one of those who crops, including meadow and clover, and the amount of live stock “had begun to mell of Lollardy, and drink the gall of in 1881, 1891, 1895, and 1900. The figures for 1900 are for the heresy.” The date of his birth is unknown, and his new administrative county :— name is last mentioned in 1404. The historic and Other Meadow Barley, literary importance of The Cuckoo and the Nightinand Total. Wheat. Oats. Rye, Potatoes. Turnips. Green Crops. Clover. gale is great. It is the work of a poet who had Beans. studied the prosody of Chaucer with more intelligent 18S1 2597 16,215 2391 25,081 5054 3862 85,236 141,636 1891 2025 13,100 1652 20,665 5098 90,525 138,495 5410 care than either Occleve or Lydgate, and who there- 1895 836 12,765 1633 20,547 5551 5315 98,261 144,908 fore forms an important link between the 14th 1900 1253 11,103 1541 18,594 4846 5770 102,852 145,959 and 15th centuries in English poetry. Clanvowe writes with a surprising delicacy and sweetness, in For 1899 the total value of the cereal and other crops was estia five-line measure almost peculiar to himself. Professor mated by the Registrar-General at £968,331. The number of acres pasture in 1881 was 475,316 ; in 1891, 463,061 ; and in Skeat points out a unique characteristic of Clanvowe’s under 1900, 478,411. versification, namely, the unprecedented freedom with Horses which he employs the suffix of the final -e, and rather and Asses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. Goats. Poultry. avoids than seeks elision. The Cuckoo and the NightMules. ingale was imitated by Milton in his sonnet to the 1881 15,960 9,596 156,153 108,121 41,847 14,994 423,072 Mghtingale, and was rewritten in modern English by 1891 19,070 10,649 173,282 141,399 38,290 17,382 409,098 1895 20,615 11,312 171,288 118,065 41,431 17,721 429,274 Wordsworth. It is a poem of so much individual beauty, 1900 18,057 12,092 175,756 117,864 43,439 18,038 455,367 that we must regret the apparent loss of everything else The number of milch cows in 1891 was 45,224, and in 1900, written by a poet of such unusual talent. (e. g.) 55,351. It is estimated that the total value of cattle, sheep, and Clare, a maritime county of Ireland, province of pigs in 1899 was £2,390,014. In 1900 the number of holdings Munster. not exceeding 1 acre was 1584 ; between 1 and 5, 1347 ; between Population.—The area of the administrative county in 1900 was 5 and 15, 3286 ; between 15 and 30, 4753 ; between 30 and 50, 784,956 acres, of which 145,959 were tillage, 478,411 pasture, 3676 ; between 50 and 100, 2799 ; between 100 and 200, 939 ; 243 fallow, 7840 plantation, 28,312 turf-hog, 8098 marsh, 79,432 between 200 and 500, 353 ; and above 500, 55—total, 18,792. barren mountain, and 36,661 water, roads, fences, &c. The new The number of loans issued (the number of loans being the same administrative county under the Local Government (Ireland) Act, as the number of tenants) under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885, 1898, includes 3 electoral divisions, formerly situated in Galway. 1891, and 1896, up to 31st March 1900, was 463, amounting to The population in 1881 was 141,457, and in 1891, 124,483, of £127,912. The number of loans sanctioned for agricultural whom 63,138 were males and 61,345 females, divided as follows improvements under sect. 31 of the Land Act, 1881, between 1882 among the different religions :—Roman Catholics, 122,047 ; Pro- and 1900, was 778, and the amount issued was £54,034. The amount issued on loan for all classes of works under the testant Episcopalians, 2246 ; Presbyterians, 106 ; Methodists, 53 ; total and other denominations, 31. The decrease of population between Land Improvement Acts, from the commencement of operations in (yj. H. Po.) 1881 and 1891 was 12'00 per cent. The average number of 1847 to 31st March 1900, was £177,819. persons to an acre was '15. Of the total population, 114,928 Claremont, a town of Sullivan county, New inhabited the rural districts, being an average of 123 persons to each square mile of crops and pasture. The population in 1901 Hampshire, U.S.A. It is situated in the western part of was 112,129 (Roman Catholics, 109,899 ; Protestant Episcopalians, the state, bordering on Connecticut river, and contains 2007 ; Presbyterians, 151 ; Methodists, 45 ; others, 27), being a several villages, the principal among them being Claremont, decrease of 11 ‘2 per cent. The following table gives the degree of Claremont Junction, and West Claremont. It is traversed education in 1891 :— by the Boston and Maine Railway. Population (1880), Percentage. 4704; (1900), 6498. Females. Total. R.C. Pr. Epis. Presb Clark, Sir Andrew, 1st Bart. (1826-1893), Read and write . 42,052 38,820 80,872 71-8 93-9 92-2 British physician, was born at Aberdeen on 28th October Read only . . 4,578 4,977 9,555 8-7 237 3 Illiterate . . . 10,083 11,391 21,474 19-5 31826. His father, who also was a medical 4 man, died when 45 he was only a few years old. After attending school in In 1881 the percentage of illiterates among Roman Catholics was 27'8. In 1891 there were 4 superior schools with 253 pupils Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee and (all Roman Catholics), and 250 primary schools with 20,549 pupils apprenticed to a druggist; then returning to Aberdeen he (Roman Catholics 20,228, and Protestants 321). The number of began his medical studies in the university of that city. pupils on the rolls of the national schools on 30th September 1899 Soon, however, he went to Edinburgh, where in the extrawas 22,967, of whom 22,693 were Roman Catholics and 274 Protestants. The following table gives the number of births, deaths, academical school he had a student’s career of the most brilliant description, ultimately becoming assistant to Dr and marriages in various years :— Hughes Bennett in the Pathological Department of the Year. Births. Deaths. Marriages. Royal Infirmary, and assistant demonstrator of anatomy to 1881 2981 Dr Robert Knox. But symptoms of pulmonary phthisis 1899 370 1891 2566 1851 453 brought his academic life to a close, and in the hope that the 1899 2333 1694 sea might benefit his health he joined the medical departIn 1899 the birth-rate per 1000 was 18'5, and the death-rate ment of the navy in 1848. Next year he became pathologist was 13’4 ; the rate of illegitimacy was 1'6 per cent, of the total to the Haslar Hospital, where Huxley was one of his births. The total number of emigrants who left the county colleagues, and in 1853 he was the successful candidate between 1st May 1851 and 31st December 1899 was 149,084, of for the newly-instituted post of curator to the museum of whom 72,984 were males and 76,100 females. The following are the chief towns in the county, with their populations in 1891 : the London Hospital. Here he intended to devote all his Ennis, 5460 ; Kilrush, 4095 ; Kilkee, 1556. energies to pathology, but circumstances brought him into Administration.—The county is divided into two parliamentary medical practice. In 1854, the year in which he divisions, East and West, the number of registered electors in active 1900 being respectively 12,028, and 10,683. The rateable value took his doctor’s degree at Aberdeen, the post of assistant in 1900 was £323,998. By the Local Government (Ireland) physician to the Hospital became vacant and he was Act, 1898, the fiscal and administrative duties of the grand jury prevailed upon to apply for it. He was fond of telling and (to a less extent) of other bodies were transferred to a county how his phthisical tendencies gained him the appointcouncil, urban and rural district councils were established, and under that Act the county now comprises 2 urban and 9 rural ment. “ He is only a poor Scotch doctor,” it was said, “ with but a few months to live; let him have it.” He sanitary districts. Agriculture.—The following tables show the acreage under had it, and two years before his death publicly declared S. III.— 14