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LEFT BRONTE 192 BRONTOTHERIUM inuring them to every kind of industry and fatigue. Charlotte became a teacher, and then a governess in a family. In 1842 she went with her sister Emily to Brussels to learn French and German, and she subsequently taught in the school they attended. In 1844 arrange- ments were entered into by the three sisters to open a school at Haworth, but it was a failure. They resolved now to turn their attention to literary com- position; and, in 1846, a volume of poems by the three sisters was published, under the names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. It was issued at their own risk, and attracted little attention, so they abandoned poetry for prose fiction, and produced each a novel. Bell Nicholls, but in nine months died of consumption, March 31, 1855. BRONTE, EMILY JANE, an English novelist; sister of Charlotte and Anne Bronte, bom at Thornton, Yorkshire, Aug. 20, 1818; lived most of her life at Haworth parsonage. Her pen name was Ellis Bell. "Wuthering Heights" (1847), a powerful but morbid novel, was her chief work. She died in Haworth, Dec. 19, 1848. BRONTOSAURUS EXCELSUS. a species of herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and Jurassic periods. It is sup- posed to have been a hippopotamus-like animal, and to have lived on vegetation in the waters. It was about 60 feet ,^<^ BRONTOSAURUS EXCELSUS Charlotte (Currer Bell) entitled her pro- duction "The Professor," but it was every, where refused by the publishing trade, and appeared after her death. Emily (Ellis Bell) with her tale of "Wuther- ing Heights," and Anne (Acton Bell) with "Agnes Grey," were more success- ful. Charlotte's failure, however, did not discourage her, and she composed the novel of "Jane Eyre," which was published in October, 1847. Its suc- cess was immediate and decided. Her second novel of "Shirley" appeared in 1849. Previous to this she had lost her two sisters, Emily dying on Dec. 19, 1848, and Anne May 28, 1849 (after publishing a second novel, the "Tenant of Wildfell Hall"). In the autumn of 1852 appeared Charlotte's third novel, "Villette." Shortly after, she married her father's curate, the Rev. Arthur long, and 15 feet high at the middle of the body, and, although its body was of this great size, it had one of the smallest heads known among vertebrates. BRONTOTHERIUM, or TITANO- THERITJM, a genus of the extinct mammals first found in the Bad Lands of South Dakota, and later in Nebraska and Colorado. The formation is Miocene and the genus is but one of an extinct family of herbivorous mammals. It had the following features: The skull was long and depressed, with a large pair of horn cores, placed transversely on the maxillary bones, in front of the orbits; the nasal bones, which were greatly de- veloped and firmly co-ossified, protruded over the nasal orifice; the brain cavity was small and did not extend over the cerebral hemispheres or the cerebellum,