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was destroyed by fire, but was re-stereotyped and printed in 1870. He also published pamphlets and school-books, and was associate editor of the seventh revised Oxford edition of Liddell and Scott, published in 1883. In 1894 Dr. Drisler re- tired, and Ijccaine emeritus professor of Greek.

DROLET, Gustave Adolphe, Canadian lawyer, b. in St. Pie, Quel^ec, 16 Feb., 1844. He was educated at St. Hyacinthe college, and admitted to the Montreal bar in 1866. He was a member of the jury at the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, commissioner for Canada at the Paris universal exhibition of 1878, and a member of the international jury of awards in Paris the same year. He travelled much in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has been a promoter of the project of establishing a permanent Canadian exhibition in Paris to promote trade and establish new commercial relations between Canada and the continent of Europe. He was decorated and made a knight of the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1878, and was created a knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX. in 1877. He has written many valuable papers for reviews and periodicals of Canada on topics in polities, political economy, and literature.

DRONE, Eaton Sylvester, journalist, b. in Zanesville, Ohio, 25 Jan., 1842. He was graduated at Harvard in 1866, studied law, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1869. Since 1880 he has been attached to the staff of the New York “Herald,” as a writer on law subjects. He has contributed numerous articles to periodical literature and to the “American Cyclopædia,” the “Annual Cyclopædia,” and the “Encyclopædia Britannica,” and is the author of a treatise on “Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright” (Boston and London, 1879), which was the first exhaustive treatise ever published on that subject.

DROWN, Thomas Messinger, chemist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 19 March, 1842. He was graduated at the Philadelphia high-school in 1859, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. Subsequently he studied at the Freiberg, Saxony, mining-school and in the University of Heidelberg. During 1869-'70 he was instructor of metallurgy in Harvard, and from 1874 till 1881 he held the chair of analytical chemistry in Lafayette college. In 1885 he was called to a similar place in the Massachusetts institute of technology, Boston. Prof. Drown was one of the original members of the American institute of mining engineers, its secretary, and editor of its “Transactions” from 1871 till 1884. He has published numerous professional papers on metallurgy and chemistry, and also addresses, which have appeared chiefly in the “Transactions of the American Institute of Engineers.”

DROWNE, Solomon, physician, b. in Providence, R. I., 11 March, 1753 ; d. at Mount Hygeia, in Foster, R. I., 5 Feb., 1834. His grandfathe'r and father were also named Solomon. The latter set- tled in Providence as a merchant in 1730, and for half a century bore a prominent part in the affairs of the town. Dr. Drowne was graduated at Rhode Island college (now Brown university) in 1773, studied medicine, and received medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and from Dartmouth. He served in several states as surgeon in various hospitals and regiments during the war of the Revolution. In the autunni of 1780 he went on a cruise as surgeon in the privateer " Hope," and his journal of this cruise, with the genealogy of his family, has been printed. He won the regard of Lafayette and the Counts de Rocham- beau and d'Estaing, as well as of other French offi- cers, to such a degree by his medical ability and skill as a surgeon that the chief of the medical staff intrusted invalid soldiers to his care when they left for home. In 1783 he was elected to the board of fellows in Brown university. After a tour in 1784-'5 in England, Holland, Belgium, and France, visiting hospitals, medical schools, etc., and becoming acquainted at Paris with Franklin, Jef- ferson, and other distinguished men, he resumed practice at Providence, but in 1788 went to Ohio. He participated with Gen. St. Clair and others in the treaties at Fort Harmar in 1788-'9, with Corn- Planter and other chiefs, and delivered the first anniversary oration on the settlement of Marietta, 7 April, 1789. Impaired health led to his spending several years in western Virginia and southern Pennsylvania, but in 1801 he returned to Rhode Island, and resided in Foster the remainder of his days, occupied with his professional duties, his ex- tensive botanical garden, and various scientific, classical, and literary studies. In 1811 he was ap- pointed professor of botany and materia medica at Brown, and in 1819 was elected a delegate to the convention that formed the national pharmacopoeia by the Rhode Island medical society, of which he was vice-president. He took an active part in the organization and proceedings of the Rhode Island society for the encouragement of domestic indus- try, before which he delivered addresses. In 1824, in connection with his son, William Drowne, he published " The Farmer's Guide," a comprehensive work on husbandry and gardening. He filled sev- eral public offices, contributed numerous scien-' tific and literary articles to journals of the day, and participated in the proceedings of the Ameri- can academy of arts and sciences and other learned bodies, of which he was a member. During the latter part of his life he delivered several courses of botanical lectures, and many public orations and addresses of decided merit, among the most im- portant of which were a "Eulogy on Washing- ton," 22 Feb., 1800, and an " Oration in Aid of the Cause of the Greeks," 23 Feb., 1824.

DRUM, Richard Coulter, soldier, b. in Penn- sylvania, 28 j\Iay, 1825. He studied at Jefferson college, entered "the army as a private in the 1st -

Pennsylvania volunteers on 8 Dec, 1846, was engaged at the siege of Vera Cruz, and appointed a 2d lieutenant of U. S. infantry on 18 Feb., 1847. He was brevetted 1st lieutenant for bravery at Chapultepee and the capture of the city of Mexico. After the war with Mexico he was transferred to the artillery, was engaged in the action at Blue Water, Neb., served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Harney in the Sioux

expedition, and was in Kansas during the troubles of 1856. From 1856 till 1858 he served as acting assistant adjutant-general at the headquarters of the Department of the West, and subsequently as adjutant in the artillery-school. At the beginning of the civil war he was appointed assistant adjutant-general of the U. S. army, and