BROWNING, ROBERT, an English poet, born in Camberwell, May 7, 1812. His first dramatic poem, "Pauline," which appeared anonymously in 1833, was followed two years later by "Para celsus," "Strafford" (1837) ; "Sordello" (1840), and a series of plays and dra matic lyrics under the title of "Bells and Pomegranates" (1841-1846). In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett, and re sided in Florence until her death in 1861, when he returned to London. "The Ring and the Book" was published in 1869. His other works include "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" (1850) ; "Men and Women" (1855) ; "Dramatis Personm" (1864) ; "Balaustion's Adventure" (1871) ; "Fifine at the Fair" (1872) ; "Red-Cotton Nightcap Country" (1873) ; "Dramatic Idylls" (1879-1880) ; "Jocose ria" (1883); "Ferishtah's Fancies" (1884); and "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day" (1887). He died in Venice, Dec. 12, 1889.
EDOUARD, a Franco-American physiolo gist and physician, was born in Mauri tius in 1818, his father being a sea captain from Philadelphia, who married on the island a lady named Sequard.
The son studied in Paris, and graduated M. D. in 1846. He devoted himself mainly to physiological research, and receievd numerous prizes, French and British, for the results of valuable ex periments on blood, muscular irritabil ity, animal heat, the spinal cord, and the nervous system. In 1864 he became Pro fessor of Physiology at Harvard, but in 1869 returned to Spain as Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine. In 1878 he succeeded Claude Bernard as Professor of Experimental Medicine at the College de France. His publications include lectures on "Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System" (Philadelphia, 1860) ; on "Paralysis of the Lower Extremities" (1860); and on "Nervous Affections" (1873). He died in Paris, April 1, 1894.