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Bowen (HERBERT WOLCOTT an American)

HERBERT WOLCOTT, an American diplomat, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 29, 1856. He was educated at Yale and the Columbia Law School.

He took an active part in Republican politics and was consul-general at Barcelona when the Spanish-American war broke out. In 1901 he was made Minister to Persia. He later served as Minister to Venezuela, but retired in 1905. He has published "Losing Ground," "In Divers Tones," "De Genere Humano," and "International Law." BOWERBANKIA (from J. S. Bowerbank, an eminent naturalist, who flourished in the middle of the 19th century), a genus of ascidioid polyzoa, belonging BOWER BIRDS to the family vesiculariidæ. B. imbricata is found abundantly on the chains of vessels.