CHAILLE, Stanford Emerson, American physician: b. Natchez, Miss., 9 July 1830; d. New Orleans 1911. He was graduated at Harvard in 1851, and received his M.D at Tulane University in 1853, subsequently study ing in Europe for three years. During 1862-63 he was medical inspector of the Confederate army in Tennessee, and later had charge of various military hospitals. He was a member of the National Board of Health, and in 1879 was president of the Havana yellow-fever com mission. Since 1858 he held various professor ships in Tulane University, Louisiana, and since 1886 was dean of the medical department, and professor of physiology, hygiene and pathologi cal anatomy. He has published 'Yellow Fever in Havana and 'Origin and Progress of Medical Jurisprudence, 1776-1876' (1877) ; 'Laws of Population and Voters' (1872); 'Liv ing, Dying, Registering and Voting Population of Louisiana, 1868, 1874, 1875' ; 'Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana' (1876). From 1857 to 1868 he was coeditor and proprietor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.
Charles, American soldier, explorer and diplomat : b. Princess Anne, Somerset Co., Md., 2 July 1842; d. Vir ginia Beach, Va., 24 March 1917. He was educated at Washington Academy, 1860, and was graduated from the Columbia Law School in 1880. He enlisted in the Union army in 1862; was promoted captain and mustered out in 1865 ; appointed lieutenant-colonel in thetian army 1869; chief of staff to General Gordon 1874-77, during which time he concluded a treaty with King M'Tesa annexing Uganda to Egypt; 19 July 1874, discovered Lake Ibrahim and solved the problem of the Nile sources August 1874; was wounded at M'Rooli 17 Aug.
1874; promoted colonel and brigadier, took part in the conquest of the Niam-Niam country, and in the expedition to the east coast of Africa 1875-76, and in August 1877 returned to the United States. Returning to Egypt in 1882, he became acting consul of the United States at Alexandria from June to August 1882, after the massacre of 11 June. He was consul-gen eral and secretary of legation to Korea 1887 89; secretary of the Universal Postal Congress, Washington, May 1897; and charge d'affairs (October 1897-September 1898) of the special commission to the Paris Exposition 1900. In 1910 he was awarded a gold medal by the American Geographical Society in recognition of his part in the final solution of the problem of the Nile sources. He has published 'Cen tral Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People' (1876) ;