PATENTS. 



PATENTS, DESIGNS, RE-ISSUES AND ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, 



ISSUED BY THE PATENT OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 



DURING THE YEAR 1854. 



Patent?, 



Designs, 



Re-issues, 



Additional Improvements, 



Total, 1,787 



OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1854. 



Arthur Aiken, Secretary of the Royal (English) Geographical Society. 



Dr. Barth, the distinguished African traveller. 



M. Baumgarde, a French mineralogist, accidentally killed by falling down a mine. 



Beautems Beaupre, an eminent French hydrographer. 



Dr. Golding Bird, the eminent English pathologist. 



M. Bischoff, the German botanist and anatomist. 



M. Brockenden, a leading member of the Royal (English) Society. 



Dr. W. J. Burnett, of Boston, an eminent American physiologist and naturalist. 



F. Catherwood, a distinguished American artist and traveller. He first visited, with 



J. L. Stephens, the ruined cities of Central America. Lost in the Arctic. 



Prof. Craig, an English geologist. 



William Darby, of Washington, D. C., a geographer of repute. 



Frederic W. Davis, chemist and geologist. 



Sir Henry M. Elliot, a distinguished Oriental scholar and traveller. 



William P. Elliot, Washington, D. C., architect of the Patent Office, tc. 



Charles Euderlin, an eminent German chemist, died in New York. 



