PATENTS. 



TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PATENTS, REISSUES, DESIGNS AND 



ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, GRANTED AT THE PATENT OFFICE IN 



WASHINGTON, DURING EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR 1851. 



TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PATENTS ISSUED TO CITIZENS OF DIF- 

 FERENT STATES DURING THE YEAR 1851. 



Maine, 10 



Vermont, 9 



New Hampshire, .... 15 

 Massachusetts, .... 132 



Rhode Island, 14 



Connecticut, 53 



New York, 282 



New Jersey, 15 



Pennsylvania, 89 



Delaware, 3 



Maryland, 9 



Virginia, 9 



North Carolina, .... 2 



South Carolina, .... 4 



Georgia, 9 



Alabama, 2 



Mississippi, 



Louisiana, 4 



Arkansas, 



Tennessee, 5 



Kentucky, ...... 9 



Ohio, 79 



Michigan, 5 



Indiana, 13 



Illinois, 9 



Missouri, 7 



Florida, 



Texas, 1 



Iowa, 2 



Wisconsin, 3 



District of Columbia, . . 11 



Foreign, 17 



Total, 821 



Patents, reissues, designs and additional improvements, are all included in this Table. 



OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1851. 



John James Audubon, the eminent ornithologist ; aged 76. 



John Broadhead BecA", M. D., Professor of Materia Meclica, N. Y. College of Physicians. 



M. Beudant, Member of the French Institute, Professor of Geology, College of France. 



Edward Bmns, M. D., of Jamaica, W. I., author of the Anatomy of Sleep. 



Marshall Dode de la Brunerie, constructor and engineer of the fortifications of Paris. 



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