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a discussion on some genera of Limnaine butterflies, with a description 

 of a new species from Borneo, illustrated by a boldly-drawn figure. 

 An autobiography, with portrait, appeared in the British Naturalist 

 for July, 1893. 



CHARLES EDOUARD BROWN-SEQUARD. 



Born April 8, 1817. Died April i, 1894. 



''pHIS eminent physiologist was the son of Edward Brown, of 

 1 Philadelphia, and was born at Port Louis, in the Mauritius. 

 His mother, from whom he derived his name, was a French- 

 woman. In 1838 he went to Paris to study medicine, received 

 his doctorate in 1840, and proceeded at once to make those researches 

 which have rendered his name famous. He held a post for a short 

 while in London at the Hospital for Paralytics, and from 1 864-1 868 

 he held the Professorship of Pathology and Physiology at Harvard 

 College, United States. In 1878, he succeeded Charles Bernard in 

 the chair of experimental physiology at the School of Medicine at 

 Paris. Among his best-known works may be cited his researches 

 into the composition of the blood, animal heat, the spinal cord and 

 its diseases, and the characters of the brain. He was the founder of 

 the Journal de la physiologic de rhomme et des animattx, and was its editor 

 from 1858-1863 ; he directed the Archives de Physiologic Normale et 

 Pathologique, with Charcot and Valpian from 1868 onwards, and in 

 1873 he established a practice in New York, and, with Dr. Segrim, 

 founded and edited the American Journal Archives of Scientific and 

 Practical Medicine and Surgery. He was president of the Biological 

 Society of France in 1887. 



GEORGES POUCHET. 

 Born 1833. Died March, 1894. 



GEORGES POUCHET was the son of Felix Archimede Pouchet, 

 and was born at Rouen in 1833. He studied medicine at Paris, 

 receiving his Doctorate in 1864. The year following he was appointed 

 assistant-naturalist and chief of the anatomical department of the 

 Musee d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, a post he continued to hold until 

 his death. In October, 1870, he became general secretary to the 

 Prefecture of the Police, but soon returned to his natural history. 



Pouchet published " De la pluralite des races humaines " (1858) ; 

 "Precis d'histiologie humaine" (1863) ; " Colorations de I'epiderme " 

 (1864) ; and numerous memoirs on the great ant-eater and other 

 edentates. 



THE deaths are also announced of: — Dr. William F. Poole, the 

 well-known librarian of Chicago. Dr. Poole was in his seventy- 

 third year, and had been librarian at Boston and Cincinnati before he 

 went to Chicago to take charge of the Public Library. Since the fire 



