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Melville, George Wallace 1841- Naval engineer; born in New York, Jan. 10, 1841; was educated in the public schools and at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; entered the U. S. N. as third assistant engineer on July 29, 1861; was promoted second assistant engineer, Dec. 18, 1862; first assistant engineer, Jan. 30, 1865; passed assistant engineer, Feb. 24, 1874; and chief engineer, March 4, 1881. On Jan. 16, 1888, Captain Melville was appointed chief of the bureau of steam engineering in the navy, with the relative rank of commodore, a post he has since retained. On the abolition of the grade of commodore by the Navy Personnel act in 1899 he was given the rank of rear-admiral during his occupancy of the office of chief engineer. In 1879 he joined the Jeannette polar expedition under the command of Lieut. George W. De Long, and sailed from San Francisco July 8. The vessel was crushed by the ice and sunk June 12, 1881. Melville and De Long succeeded in reaching land 150 miles apar