Broussard
ROBERT F., an American senator; born in New Iberia, La., Aug. 17, 1864. He studied at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., and graduated from the law school of Tulane University of Louisiana, in 1889. He served for eighteen years as representative in Congress from the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-third Congresses inclusive. He was elected to the Uni United States Senate in May, 1912, for the term beginning March 4, 1915. He died April 12, 1918.
BROUSSONETIA (named after P. N.
V. BROUSSONET, a naturalist who traveled in Barbary, and published a work on fishes in 1782), a genus of plants belonging to the order urticaceæ (nettleworts). B. papyrifera is the paper mulberry. It has 3-5 lobed leaves. There is another species of the genus, B. spatulata, or entire leaved broussonetia. BROWN. Brown is not one of the primary colors in a spectrum. It is composed of red and yellow, with black, the negation of color. It is also the name of a genus of colors, of which the typical brown, deep brown, bright colored, sooty, species is ordinary brown, tinged with grayish or blackish. The other species are chestnut bro brown, rusty, cinnamon, red brown, rufous, glandaceous, liver c and lurid.