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Rh lished " Index Monasticus, or the Abbeys, Monas- teries, etc., formerly established in the City of Nor- wich and the Ancient Kingdom of East Anglia " (London, 1821); "The Geology of East Anglia" (1827) ; and a very complete " General Index to Dugdale's ' Monasticon Anglicanum ' " (1830). He was a member of scientific societies, and contributed to their transactions. Among his publications are "The Geology and Natural History of the North- east Extremity of the Alleghany Mountains " ; "A Supplement to the Natural History of the Birds of the Alleghany Range " ; " History and Description of Fossil Fuel " (London, 1841) ; and " Statistics of Coal " (Philadelphia, 1848).

TAYLOR, Robert Barraud, lawyer, b. in Nor- folk, Va., 24 March, 1774 ; d. there, 13 April, 1834. He was graduated at William and Mary in 1793, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and became an eminent advocate. He was a member of the Virginia assembly in 1798-'9. As brigadier-gen- eral of Virginia militia he served in the defence of Norfolk in 1813-'14, and he was appointed to the same rank in the U. S. army on 19 July, 1813, but declined. He was a member of the State constitu- tional convention of 1829-30, and judge of the general court of Virginia from 1831 till his death.

TAYLOR, Robert William, physician, b. in London, England, 11 Aug., 1842. He was gradu- ated at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, in 1868, and has made a specialty of the treatment of syphilis, skin diseases, and genito- urinary diseases. For three years he was professor of diseases of the skin in the Women's medical col- lege in New York city, and then he was called to a similar chair in the medical department of the University of Vermont. He is one of the surgeons of the venereal department of the Charity hospital, and physician to the department of skin diseases in Bellevue hospital dispensary, and for six years he was surgeon to the department of venereal and skin diseases of the New York dispensary. Dr. Taylor is a member of medical societies at home and abroad, was president of the Dermatological society of New York, and has been vice-president of the American dermatological association. His contributions to medical journals, chiefly in the line of his specialty, include about twenty papers.

TAYLOR, Samuel Harvey, educator, b. in Derry, N. H., 3 Oct., 1807 ; d. in Andover, Mass., 29 Jan., 1871. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1832, and at Andover theological seminary in 1837, when he took charge of Phillips Andover academy, having been a tutor in Dartmouth col- lege during the last two years of his theological course. He was principal of the academy till his death, holding a high position among the classical scholars and instructors of the country. In 1852 he became associate editor of the " Bibliotheca Sacra," succeeding Bela B. Edwards. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him in 1854 by Brown. He was the translator and editor of text-books of Greek and Latin philology from the German, the author of "Method of Classical Study" (Boston, 1861), and the compiler of " Classical Study : its Value Illustrated by Extracts from the Writings of Emi- nent Scholars " (Andover, 1870).

TAYLOR, Samuel Priestly, musician, b. in London, England, in 1779 ; d. in New York city in 1874. He was the eldest son of Rev. James Tay- lor. In early childhood he was regarded as a mu- sical prodigy, and was placed under the instruction of Dr. William Russell, of Oxford. When twenty- one years old he became organist of Silver street chapel, and afterward of Islington church. He came to this country in 1806, and soon after his arrival in New York was appointed organist of St. Ann's church, where he introduced the custom of chanting. He was afterward organist of Grace church, New York, then of St. Ann's church, Brooklyn, and later at St. George's, New York, and conducted the music at the funeral services of Gen. Richard Montgomery at St. Paul's, New York. In 1818 he removed to Boston, where he was organ- ist of the Old South church, but in 1826 he re- turned to Brooklyn and resumed his former post at St. Ann's. In 1834 he was appointed organist of St. Paul's, New York. His last performance on the organ was in 1871.

TAYLOR, Stephen William, educator, b. in Adams, Mass., 23 Oct., 1791 ; d. in Hamilton, N. Y., 7 Jan., 1856. He was graduated at Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., in 1817, and became prin- cipal of Black River academy at Lowville, N. Y., which place he filled until 1831. In 1834 he as- sumed charge of the preparatory department of what is now Madison university at Hamilton, N. Y., and from 1838 till 1845 was professor of mathe- matics and natural philosophy. He then became one of the founders of a Baptist university at Lewisburg, Pa., of which he was president for five years. From 1851 till his death he was president of Madison university. He was some- what eccentric, but a man of great executive abil- ity, and during his presidency the last-named institution was brought from a very depressed to a highly prosperous condition. He was the author of a history of the university, and a series of essays on the theory of education, published posthu- mously. — His son, Benjamin Franklin, author, b. in Lowville, Lewis co„ N. Y., 19 July, 1819 ; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 24 Feb., 1887, was graduated at Madison uni- versity in 1839. A year later he became literary editor of the Chi- cago " Evening Journal,"and dur- ing the civil war, 1861-'5, he was its correspondent in the field, follow- ing the western armies. His war letters were very picturesque, and many of them were translated and republished in Europe. The London " Times " called him " the Oliver Goldsmith of America." Mr. Taylor travelled in Mexico and the islands of the Pacific, and was for many years a public lecturer. The University of California gave him the degree of LL. D. His publications in book-form are "Attractions of Language" (New York, 1845); "January and June" (Chicago, 1853); "Pictures in Camp and Field" (1871): "The World on Wheels" (1873); " Old-Time Pictures and Sheaves of Rhyme " (1874) ; " Songs of Yesterday " (1877) ; " Summer Savory, gleaned from Rural Nooks " (1879) ; " Between the Gates," pictures of California life (1881) ; " Dulce Doraum, the Burden of Song " (1884) ; a complete edition of his poems in a single volume (1887): and "Theophilus Trent, or Old Times in the Oak Openings," a novel (1887). His most successful poems are "The Isle of the Long Ago," "The Old Village Choir," and " Rhymes of the River."