OBITUARY 



OF MEN EMINENT IN SCIENCE, 1864. 



Bache, Franklin, Editor of the American Pharmacopoeia. 



Baikie, Dr., an African explorer. 



Blanchard, Thomas, an eminent American inventor. 



Bond, George P., the distinguished American astronomer. 



Cappocci, M., Director of the Observatory at Naples. 



Christie, Sam. H., an English physicist, formerly Secretary of the Royal Society. 



Falconer, Hugh, an eminent British geologist. 



Gerard, Jules, a well-known French traveler and naturalist. 



Gesner, Abram, a well-known chemist of New Brunswick, 



Gillis, Com. J. M., director of the National (U. S.) Observatory 



Gratiolet, M., a French naturalist. 



Hitchcock, Prof. Edward, the distinguished American geologist. 



Holmes, Dr. Ezekiel, an American geologist and naturalist. 



Maudsley, T. H., a distinguished English engineer. 



McCulloch, J. M., an eminent British statistician. 



Merriam, Eben, a well-known meteorologist, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Ncilson, James, of England, the inventor of the " hot-blast" in iron smelting, 



Normandy, Dr., an English chemist and inventor. 



Pike, Benjamin, an American optician. 



Plana, Baron Giovanni, the eminent Italian astronomer and mathematician. 



Portlock, Maj. Gen., Chief of the British Ordnance Survey. 



Pugh Evan, Ph. D., of Pennsylvania, a well-known agricultural chemist. 



Roberts, Richard, an English mechanic, inventor of the slide lathe. 



Rose, Henreich, the great German chemist. 



Schoolcraft, H. R., well known for his researches in reference to the American 

 Indians. 



Silliman, Benjamin, the eminent American scientist. 



Speke, John Hanning, the discoverer of the source of the Nile. 



Struve, Fred, a well-known Russian astronomer. 



Taylor, Prof. Wm. J., an American mineralogist and chemist. 



Thomson, Dr. R. D., an eminent Scotch chemist. 



Totten, Gen. Joseph G., an American military engineer. 



Wagner, Dr. Rudolph, Professor of Natural Sciences in the University of Got- 

 tingen. 



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