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don county, 1827, and a distinguished Master 

 of Arts of the University of Virginia, where 

 he was a fellow studfent and an intimate friend 

 of a group of prominent Southerners, includ- 

 ing Dr. J. A. Broadus, William Wirt Henry, 

 Professor Frank Smith of the University of 

 Virginia, and others. Dr. Broun was gradu- 

 ated in 1850. He was elected to the pro- 

 fessorship in the college of Mississippi in 

 1852 and stayed there two years, then to the 

 chair of mathematics in the University of 

 Georgia. 



In 1856 Dr. Broun founded Bloomfield 

 Academy near the University of Virginia, 

 which he conducted successfully until the out- 

 break of the war between the States. In 

 1859 he married Miss Sallie J. Fleming, 

 daughter of a prominent Virginia family. 

 She has been dead a number of years. 



Dr. Broun enlisted in the Confederate army 

 as a lieutenant of artillery. He rose to the 

 rank of lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance 

 Department, and on account of his high 

 mathematical and scientific attainments was 

 made Commandant of the Arsenal in Rich- 

 ' mond. He, perhaps, gave the last order in 

 that city directing the blowing up of the Con- 

 federate Arsenal. 



After the close of the war Dr. Broun was 

 elected to the chair of physics in the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia, and in 1872 he became presi- 

 dent of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege of that University. From 1875 to 1882 

 he was professor of mathematics in Vander- 

 bilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and in 1882 

 was elected president of the Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College of Alabama, now known 

 as the Polytechnic Institute. He remained in 

 Auburn one year and went to the University 

 of Texas as professor of mathematics, where 

 he was made chairman of the faculty. In 

 1884 Dr. Broun was reelected president of the 

 Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. 

 He had served continuously as president of 

 the institution since 1884. 



Dr. Broun was a man of varied and accu- 

 rate scholarship and of rare wisdom in the 

 control of a great institution. Broadly found- 

 ed in the principles of educational science, he 

 always planned wisely, and was the first to 



establish and to develop several new branches 

 of scientific education in the South, such as 

 manual training, electrical engineering and 

 biology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Plans have been formed for the erection of 

 a memorial tower and meteorological station in 

 honor of Dr. J. P. Joule, F.R.S., at Sale, Che- 

 shire, where he lived from 1872 to the time of 

 his death in 1880. 



Dr. Ed. Suess, professor of geology at 

 Vienna, has been made an honorary member 

 of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. 



M. Alfred Picakd has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of .Sciences. 



The Prince of Wales has been admitted as 

 a fellow of the Eoyal Society. 



Dr. J. E. Green, the well-known botanist, 

 has been elected a fellow of Downing College, 

 Cambridge. 



Dr. Wilhelm Hittorf, professor of physics 

 at Miinster, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary 

 of his professorship on January 12. He was 

 on the occasion made an honorary doctor of 

 engineering of the Technical School at Char- 

 lottenburg. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the pro- 

 fessorship of Augusto Tamburini, professor of 

 psychiatry at the University of Modena, was 

 celebrated on December 25, by the presentation 

 bi a medal and other ceremonies. 



Professor Ernst von Leyden, the eminent 

 pathologist at the University of Berlin, will 

 celebrate his eightieth birthday on April 20. 



De. Karl Pieske, engineer in the hydrolog- 

 ical bureau in Berlin, has been given the title 

 of 'professor.' 



Dr. C. H. Herty, of the University of Geor- 

 gia, will shortly resign to accept a position in 

 the bureau of forestry. 



Professor A. C. Haddok, of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed advising curator of 

 the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill, now 

 vmder the charge of the London County Coun- 

 cil. 



Dr. Adolf Meyer, the new head of the 

 Pathological Institute of the New York State 



