VINCENT, Frank, traveller, born in Brooklyn, New York, 2 April, 1848. He was educated at Yale, from which college he received the honorary degree of A. M. in 1875, and was engaged during a period of eleven years in travel and exploration in all parts of the world. Mr. Vincent is a member of many geographical, ethnological, and archaeological societies, and has received decorations from the kings of Burmah, Cambodia, and Siam. His valuable collection of Siamese and Cambodian antiquities and art and industrial objects he presented in 1884 to the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. The ruined temples and palaces of Cambodia and Cochin China were described for the first time in his book entitled "The Land of the White Elephant" (New York, 1874). Among his other works are "Through and Through the Tropics" (1876) ; "Two Months in Burmah "(1877) ; " The Wonderful Ruins of Cambodia " (1878); "Norsk, Lapp, and Finn" (1881), "Around and about South America" (1888) ; and "The Republics of South America" (1889).