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William Gannaway ‘((“ Parson Browntow ”’), an American politician, journalist, and author, born in Wythe county, Va., Aug. 29, 1805. During his early career he was an itinerant preacher, editor, and lecturer. He was a Union champion during the Civil War, and was banished from the Confederate lines on that ground. In 1865 he was elected Governor of Tenne ee, and was reelected in 1867. He was United States Senator from 1869 to 1875. He died in Knoxville, Tenn., April 29, 1877. Brown-Séquard, Charles Edouard, Franco-American physiologist and = physician, was born in Mauritius in 1818, his father being a sea captain from Philadelphia, who married on the island a lady named Sequard. The son studied in Paris, and graduated M. D. in 1846. He devoted himself mainly to physiological research, and received numerous prizes, French and British, for the results of valuable exam a on blood, muscular irrita- 7 ility, animal heat, the eel cord, and the nervous system. In 1864 he. became Profe or of Physiology at Harvard, but in 1869 returned to Paris as Profe or of Pathology in the School ef Medicine. In 1873 he became a medical practitioner in New York, treating especially diseases of the nervous system; and in 1878 he succeeded Claude Bernard as Profe or of Experimental Medicine at the Collége de France. He died in Paris, April 1, 1894, Browns on, Orestes August us, an American autbor; born in Stock bridge, Vt., Sept. 16, 1803; died in Detroit, Mich., April 17, 1876.