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Browning (ROBERT an English poet born)

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 "Paracelsus," "Strafford" (1837); "Sordello" ROBERT BROWNING (1840), and a series of plays and dramatic lyrics under the title of "Bells and Pomegranates" (1841-1846). In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett, and resided in Florence until her death in 1861, BROWN-TAILED MOTH 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 Personæ" (1864); "Balaustion's Adventure" (1871); "Fifine at the Fair" (1872); "Red-Cotton Nightcap Country" (1873); "Dramatic Idylls" (1879-1880); "Jocoseria" (1883); "Ferishtah's Fancies" (1884); and "Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day" (1887). He died in Venice, Dec. 12, 1889.

BROWN-SÉQUARD (-sa-kär), ÉD- OUARD, a Franco-American physiologist and physician, was born in Mauritius in 1818, his father being a seacaptain from Philadelphia, who married on the island a lady named Séquard.

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 experiments on blood, muscular irritability, animal heat, the spinal cord, and the nervous system. In 1864 he became Professor 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 Collège 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.