MACBRIDE, Thomas Huston, American educator and botanist: b. Rogersville, Tenn., 31 July 184& After graduation at Monmouth Col lege in 1869 he taught mathematics and modern languages at Lenox College from 1870 till 1878, in which year he became assistant professor of natural sciences. In 1884 he was made pro fessor of botany and held this post until 1914 when he became president. Since 1916 he has been president emeritus. His specialty is fungi. Dr. Macbride has had many degrees: Monmouth gave him A.M. in 1873; the Univer sity of Bonn the same in 1891.• Lenox gave him Ph.D. in 1895; Monmouth that of LL.D. in 1914, and Coe the same in 1915. He is a mem ber of many scientific societies, of the American Forestry Association, Iowa Park and Forestry Association and of the Society of Botanists of the Central States. He is also a Fellow of the Botanical Society of America. He has pub lished many of his lectures and addresses, has contributed to the Popular Science Monthly, Science, etc., and is the author of a textbook on Botany' (1895) and 'North American Slime Moulds' (1899).
McBURNEY, Charles, Amer ican surgeon: b. Roxbury, Mass., 17 Feb. 1845; d. 1913. He was graduated at Harvard in 1866; and from the Columbia Medical School in 1870, and thereafter practised his profession in New York. He was professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and was visiting and consulting surgeon at Saint Luke's, the Presbyterian. Roosevelt, New York Orthopedic and other hospitals. He became widely known as a very skilful operative surgeon, and was Fellow or member of many medical societies of this country and He discovered °McBurney's point? which is pathognomonic of appendicitis. He was a world-wide authority on appendicitis. When President McKinley was shot, Dr. McBurney was summoned to Buffalo as consulting sur geon. He was a great teacher as well as a great surgeon.
McBURNEY, Robert Raikes, American religious worker: b. Castleblaney, Ireland, 31 March 1837; d. Clifton Springs, N. Y., 27 Dec. 189& He came• to the United States in 1854, and from 1862 was the general secretary of the New York Young Men's Christian Association. He was devoted to his work, and with the progress of years came to her cognized as the leading Y. M. C. A. secretary in the world.
McCABE, Charles Cardwell, American Methodist bishop: b. Athens, Ohio, 11 Oct. 1836; d. New York, 19 Dec. 1906. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1860 he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, and in 1862 was appointed chaplain of the 122d Ohio Infantry. At the battle of Winchester he was captured, and held in Libby prison for four months, and soon after his re lease entered the service of the United States Christian Commission and succeeded in raising a large amount of money for its work. Later he became financial agent for Wesleyan Uni versity; and in 1884 was made secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society. He was remarkably successful in raising large amounts of money for missionary purposes. He became a bishop of his Church in 1896, and in December 1902 was elected chancellor of the American University at Washington, D. C.
McCABE, James Dabney, American au thor: b. Richmond, Va., 30 July 1842; d. Ger mantown, Pa., 27 Jan. 1883. He was the son of James Dabney McCabe (1808-75), a Protestant Episcopal clergyman and writer, and was educated at the Virginia Military Institute. He began to write very early. At the begin ning of the Civil War he published a pamphlet entitled
McCABE, Joseph, British rationalist: b. England, 1867. He was educated at Saint Francis's, Manchester, at Saint Anthony's, Forest Gate and at the University of Louvain. In 1883 he became a Franciscan was ordained a priest in 1890 and in 1895 became rector of Buckingham College. In 1896 he left the Roman Catholic Church and became a lecturer and writer on rationalistic subjects. His books include
Years in a Monastery' (Lon don 1897) ; (Modern Rationalism' (1897) ; (Abelard) (1901) ;• (Saint Augustine and his Age' (1902) ;
(1906) ;