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484 college, and to a similar chair in the New Orleans school of medicine in 1860, but resigned the latter at the beginning of the civil war. As a student in Louisville, he had developed a special taste for physiology, and had experimented on living ani- mals with Prof. Lunsford P. Yandell. While in New Orleans he experimented on alligators, and developed some important points with reference to the influence of the pneumogastric nerves upon the heart. Dr. Flint was the first physiolgist in the United States to operate on the spinal cord and the spinal nerves in living animals, and early in 1861 spent several months studying in Paris under Charles Robin and Claude Bernard. On the organi- zation of the Bellevue hospital medical college, in 1861, he became professor of physiology and micro- scopic anatomy, and also secretary and treasurer of the faculty. For eight years he delivered lectures on physiology in the Long Island college hospital. In 1874 he became surgeon-general of New York state. His experimental work has received high praise. In 1862 his investigations on " A New Ex- cretory Function of the Liver" was presented to the French academy of sciences for the Monthyon prize, and in 1869 it received honorable mention and 1,500 francs. He published in 1869 an elabo- rate review of the history of the discovery of the motor and sensory properties of the roots of the spinal nerves, in which the discovery was ascribed to Francois Magendie instead of to Sir Charles Bell, who has generally been regarded as its author. During the same year he conducted a series of ex- periments upon the glycogenic function of the liver, in which he endeavored to harmonize various conflicting observations, and is considered to have settled the question. Dr. Flint is a member of medical and scientific societies, has been a large contributor to medical journals, and has published numerous monographs. He was the author of articles in the "American Cyclopaedia," and his works include " The Physiology of Man " (New York, 1866-'74) ; " Manual of Chemical Examina- tion of the Urine in Disease " (1870 ; 6th ed., 1884) ; " Text-Book of Human Physiology " (1876 : 3d ed., 1881) ; •' On the Source of Muscular Power " (1878) ; and '-' On tJie Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercise" (1871).

FLINT, Billa, Canadian senator, b. in Eliza- bethtown, Leeds co.. Out., 9 Feb., 1805. He was educated in his native town, and became a mer- chant. He has been president of the Belleville board of police, and also its reeve and mayor ; was warden of Hastings county in 1873, and was mem- ber of the county council for twenty-four years. He was also reeve of Elzevir for twenty-one years, ending in 1879. He represented Hastings in the Canadian assembly from 1847 till 1851, and South Hastings from 1854 till 1858. He was an un- successful candidate in 1861 for the legislative council of Canada, but in 1862 was elected and represented the Trent division until the union of 1867, when he was called to the senate.

FLINT, Charles Louis, agriculturist, b. in Middleton, Mass., 8 May, 1824; d. in Hillman, Ga., 26 Feb., 1889. He was brought up on his father's farm, and obtained a collegiate education through his own exertions, graduating at Phillips Andover academy in 1845, and at Harvard in 1849. He studied law, but, liaving acquired some distinc- tion by his contributions to agricultural journals, was appointed secretary of the Massachusetts board of agriculture, which office he held from 1853 till 1881. He was one of the original organizers of the Massachusetts agricultural college at Amherst, was its secretary for nearly twenty years, and for one year served as president. In addition to full and valuable annual reports, he has published " The Agriculture of Massachusetts " (3 vols., Boston, 1853-'4) ; " Treatise on Grass and Forage Plants " (New York, 1857) ; " Milch Cows and Dairy Farm- ing " (Boston, 1859) ; a new edition of Harris's " In- sects Injurious to Vegetation " : and. with George B. Emerson, a " ^lanual of Agriculture."

FLINT, Henry, educator, b. in Dorchester, Mass., in 1675; d. 13 Feb., 1760. He was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1693, appointed a fellow of that college in 1700, and in 1705-'54 was a tutor there. He published a volume of sermons (1739).

FLINT, Henry Martyn, author, b. in Phila- delphia, 24 IMarcii, 1829 ;' d. in Camden, N. J., 12 Dec, 1868. He studied law, was an editor of the Chicago "Times" in 1855-'61, and then acted as correspondent for various newspapers. He pub- lished a " Life of Stephen A. Douglas " (Philadel- phia, 1860); "The History and Statistics of the Railroads of the United States " (1868) ; and " 3Iexi- co under Maximilian" (1869).

FLINT, Jacob, clergyman. b. in Reading, Mass., 7 Aug., 1767 ; d. in IMarshfield. Mass., 11 Oct.. 1835. He was graduated at Harvard in 1794, and ordained pastor of the Unitarian Congregational church in Cohasset, 10 June, 1798. He published a history of Cohasset in the Massachusetts historical collec- tion, and two discourses on the history of Cohasset (1821, reprinted in 1868). — His son, Joshua Bar- ker, surgeon, b. in Cohasset, Mass., 13 Oct., 1801 ; d. in Louisville, Ky., 19 March, 1864, studied with his father, and was graduated at Harvard in 1820. He was appointed usher in the English classical school at Boston, of which George B. Emerson was the principal, and remained there for two years, after which he studied medicine. He received his medical degree at Harvard in 1825. and practised in Boston for twelve years, during which he served several terms in the legislature. In 1837 he was called to the chair of surgery in the Louisville ri^edical institute, which he held until 1849. He was then elected to the same chair in the Ken- tucky school of medicine, and remained there until his death. He was the author of " Practice of Medicine " (2d cd., 1868).

FLINT, John James Bleecker, Canadian law- yer, b. in Belleville, Out., 29 Dec, 1838. He re- ceived his education at the Belleville grammar- school, and at Victoria college, Cobourg. He began to practise law in 1862, was made town councillor in 1868, and held that office until 1872, when he was elected mayor of Belleville. In 1884 he was appointed police-magistrate. He is a Liberal in politics. He has been active in several philan- thropic enterprises, and has aided in erecting a hospital and home for the friendless.

FLINT, Timothy, clergyman, b. in North Reading, Mass., 11 July. 1780; d. there, 16 Aug.. 1840. lie was graduated at Harvard in 1800, entered the ministry of the Congregational church, and set- tled in Lunenburg, Mass., in 1802. He was a dili- gent student in natural science, and his chemical ex- periments led ignorant persons to charge him with counterfeiting coin. He prosecuted them for slan- der. Ill-feeling, increased by political differences, arose between him and his parishioners, which caused him to resign his charge in 1814. He then preached in various parts of New England, and in 1815 went to the west as missionary, and .spen.; seven or eight years in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. In 1825 he returned to Massachusetts, broken in health and fortune. He then gave his attention to literature. In 1825 he removed to Cincinnati, where he edited the " Western Review "