The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ve years as dean ofthe faculty. While there he established a reputa-tion for his advanced theories on the action ofthe brain, and published Buchanans Journal ofMan. He published System of Anthropology andEclectic Practice of Medicine and Surgery. In 1856he went to New York, ^nd for many years lecturedand taught in the medical schools of New YorkCity and of Boston, afterward removing to SanJose, California. In 1882 he published The AhitjEducation, and in 1884 Therapeutic Sarcognomy, inwhich he sought to deve
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ve years as dean ofthe faculty. While there he established a reputa-tion for his advanced theories on the action ofthe brain, and published Buchanans Journal ofMan. He published System of Anthropology andEclectic Practice of Medicine and Surgery. In 1856he went to New York, ^nd for many years lecturedand taught in the medical schools of New YorkCity and of Boston, afterward removing to SanJose, California. In 1882 he published The AhitjEducation, and in 1884 Therapeutic Sarcognomy, inwhich he sought to develop a science of the cor-respondence and sympathy between the entiresurface of the body and the entire surface of thebrain, and to explain the psychical as well asphysiological powers of each. His Manual ofPsychonietry (1885) followed similar lines. Pro-fessor Buchanan wrote many articles on hisspecialties for various magazines, and in 1895attempted to found in San Francisco a therapeu-tic college for the promulgation of his views andtheories. BUCHANAN, Robert Willi.\ii, a versatile. ROBERT W. BUCH.\NAN. T\eat, iHr has writer of poetry and prose; born in Staffordshire,England, Aug. 18, 1841. He was educated at Glas-gowUniversity, and whilea mere boy went to Lon-don to seek his first work, Under-tones, a volume of versepublished in 1863, waswell received; but hisfirst distinct success wasLondon Poems, publishedin 1866. Later volumesof verse are a translationof Danish ballads, andWayside Posies (1866);North Coast Poenis{ 1867:) Napoleon Fallen: A Lyrical Drama (1871);Drama of Kings (1871); Ballads of Love, LifeHumor (1882); and The City of Dream (1888).has contributed prose to the magazines, andwritten several novels, among them A Child ofNature (1879); God and the Man (1881); The Mar-tyrdom of Madeline (1882); and Alanor(1884). He has also been successful as a drama-tist, and in 1893 published a powerful poem, enti-tled The Wandering Buchanan was in
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