WARDEN, David Bailie, author, born in Ireland in 1778; died in Paris, France, 9 October, 1845. He came to this country when young, received a classical education, and was graduated at New York medical college. He was appointed secretary of legation to General John Armstrong, minister to France, in 1804, and subsequently consul at Paris, which post he held forty years. He was distinguished for his scientific attainments and varied learning, was a member of the French academy, and formed two libraries of American books, one of which was acquired by Harvard in 1823, and the other by the New York state library in 1840. He published "Inquiry concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes" (Paris, 1810);" Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments "; " Description of the District of Columbia" (1816) : "Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America" (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1819); "L'art de verifier les dates, chronologic de l'Amerique" (10 vols., Paris, 1826-'44); " Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis, etc." (1820); '"Recherches sur les antiquitds de l'Amerique Septentrionale" (1827); and "Bibliotheca Americana" (1831).