Forbes Benignns Winslow, an English physician, born in London in August, 1810, died there, March 3,1874. He commenced his professional studies in New York, passed the royal college of surgeons, London, in 1835, and graduated M. D. at Aberdeen. He devoted himself exclusively to the treatment of insanity from 1840, and opened a private asylum at Hammersmith, of which he was resident superintendent for several years till his large consultation practice called him to London. In 1848 he established the " Quarterly Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology." In 1851-2 he was Lettsomian lecturer to the medical society of London. In 1857 he was made president of the association of the medical officers of hospitals and asylums for the insane, and in 1859 a commissioner of lunacy. Between 1831 and 1835 he published a "Manual of Osteology," a " Manual of Practical Midwifery," and "Physics and Physicians;" afterward, " The Anatomv of Suicide" (1840); "Preservation of Health of Body and Mind " (1842); "Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases" (1843); " Act for the Cure and Treatment of Lunatics " (1845); "Lettsomian Lectures on Insanity" (1854); "Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Disorders of the Mind" (1860); and "Light: its Influence on Life and Health" (1867).