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Mark, Edward Laurens

educator, author, was born May 30, 1847, in Hamlet, N. Y. He is a successful educator and writer on anatomy and embryology of animals, and since 1885 has filled the chair of anatomy in the Harvard university. He is the author of Maturation, Fecundation, and Segmentation of Limax, a pioneer work in cythology.

MARKELL, CHARLES FREDERICK, lawyer, diplomat, author, poet, was born Oct. 16, 1855, in Frederick, Md. He received an academic and collegiate education, graduating from Columbian university of Washington, D. C., and studied law and was admitted to the bar before attaining his majority. He twice represented his city in the Maryland legislature; for three years edited a daily republican newspaper, and was in 1892 appointed by President Harrison secretary of legation to Brazil. While serving at this post as charge d'affaires, he succeeded in inducing the Brazilian government to remove the onerous expediente duty upon wheat flour from the United States. He has written Chamodine, and Other Poems; Ypiranga, a love tale of the Brazils; and the Chaskell Papers, a series of biographical and historical sketches of his native county.