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 FLINT

FLINT

18oS-o9; surgeon to the Buffalo general hospital, 1858; and removed to New York city with his father in 1859, where he was professor of physi- ology in the New York medical college, 1859-60. He then went to New Orleans, La. , where he was professor of physiology in the New Orleans school of medicine, 18(50-61; went to Europe in 1861, where he studied physiology with Prof. Claude Bernard and histology with Prof. Charles Robin, and on his return to America in the fall of 1861, became acting assistant surgeon, U.S.A., in the United States (" Ladies' Home ") general Iiospi- tal and so continued for five years. He helped to establish the Bellevue Hospital medical college in 1861 and was professor of physiology there from its foundation to 1898. He became profes- sor of physiology in the Cornell universit}- medi- cal college. New Y'ork city, in 1898. He was also professor of physiology in Long Island college hospital, 1863-68; visiting physician to Bellevue hospital, 1869, and consulting physician, 1896; consulting physician to the class of nervous diseases. Bureau of medical and surgical relief for the outdoor jioor, Bellevue hosj)ital, from 1866; and surgeon-general of the state of New Y'ork, 1874-78. He was elected a member of the American medical association; fellow of the New Y'ork State medical association and presi- dent in 1895; correspondent of the Academy of natural sciences of Philadeljthia, and member of the American philosoiihical society. He was married, Dec. 23. 1862, to Elizabeth B., daughter of Robert M. McMasters of Ballston, N.Y. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Jeffer.son medical college in 1885. His medical and physiological writings include articles in medical journals, transactions and magazine reports, pamphlets and books. His essay on " A New Function of the Liver " (1862) received honorable mention with '" recompense " of 1500 francs from the Institute of France in 1869. He is the author of a treatise on The. riiysioUxjy of Man, in five volumes; a Text-Book of Unman Physiology, and several smaller works. He edited the first volume of the Tmnsactioiis of the New Y'ork state medical association (1885). In 1891 he received from the Republic of Venezuela the decoration of the order of the Liberator, third class.

FLINT, Charles Louis, agriculturist, was born in Middleton, Mass., Jlay 8, 1824. He was prepared for college at Phillips Andover academy and was graduated from Harvard in arts in 1849 and in law in 1852. He was admitted to the New Y'ork bar. but devoted himself to agricult- ural journalism. On Feb. 14, 1853, he was chosen secretary of the Massachusetts lioard of agriculture, holding this office until 1878. In 1862 he made a tour of the agricultural districts -

of Great Britain in the interest of the boara^ the next year he was a commissioner to the inter- national exhibition at Hamburg, visiting the agricultural schools of Europe and making a detailed report of their work. He was one of the founders of the Mas.sachusetts institute of technologj", Boston, and also of the Slassachusetts agricultural college, Amherst, being jiresident of the latter one year and secretary for twenty years. He received his Jt.'M. degree from Har- vard in 1853. He edited Harris's Insects hijnrioxis to Veijelation; compiled with George B. Emerson, a Manual of Ayrtculture; and published, besides his annual reports for the Massachusetts board of agriculture. Agriculture of Massachusetts (3 vols., 1853-54); Grass and Forage Plants (1857); and Milch Cows and Dairy Farming (1859). He died in Hillman, Ga., Feb. 26, 1889.

FLINT, Charles Ranlett, merchant, was born in Thoraaston, Maine, Jan. 24, 1850; son of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Tobey) Flint. His father was engaged in sliipbuilding and removed to New Y'ork, where the son was educated, being gradu- ated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic institute in 1868. He then entered a house in the South American ti-ade and in 1871 established the house of Gil- christ, Flint & Co., chandlers. In 1874 he visited South America and famil- iarized himself with the commerce of the country. He later served as con- sul of the Repub- lic of Chili in New- York, being at one time entrusted with the ar- chives and business of the Chilian legation in the absence of the charge d' a_faires. On the decla- ration of war between Chili and Peru, being at the time the financial agent of the Peruvian government, he resigned the consulship of Chili. In 1884 he made a visit to Brazil to develop the rubber trade along the Amazon and was soon afterward appointed consul of the Republic of Nicaragua at New Y'ork. In this capacity he exerted a strong influence in bringing about the granting of the concession to Americans for the building of the Nicaragua canal. He was chosen one of the delegates of the United States at the international American conference and while acting in that capacity was authorized by the United States secretary of state to negotiate the preliminaries for reciprocity treaties with several of the Latin-American states. He suggested the organization of the international American bank