PATENTS. 



TABLE, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PATENTS, RE-ISSUES, DESIGNS 



AND ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, GRANTED AT THE PATENT 



OFFICE, IN WASHINGTON, DURING THE YEAR 1853. 



Whole number of Patents, 

 Re-issues, .... 

 Designs, .... 

 Additional Improvements, 



Total, 



856 



26 



75 



1 



958 



TABLE, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PATENTS ISSUED TO CITIZENS 

 OF DIFFERENT STATES, DURING THE YEAR 1853. 



Maine, . 



New Hampshire, 



Vermont, 



Massachusetts, 



Rhode Island, 



Connecticut, 



New York, . 



New Jersey, . 



Pennsylvania, 



Delaware, 



Maryland, 



Virginia, 



22 

 16 

 14 



155 

 15 

 46 



272 

 19 



152 







13 



24 



North Carolina, 



South Carolina, 



Georgia, 



Alabama, 



Mississippi, . 



Louisiana, 



Kentucky, 



Florida, . 



Texas, 



Arkansas, 



Tennessee, . 



Ohio, .... 69 



Indiana, ... 21 



Illinois, .... 28 



Missouri, 



Michigan, ... 10 



Wisconsin, . 



Iowa, .... 2 



California, ... 1 



District of Columbia, 11 



Foreign, ... 28 



Total, .... 958 



OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IX SCIENCE. 1853. 



Joaquin Acosta. Bogota, South America; a geographer and naturalist. 



Prof. C. B. Adams, Professor of Natural History in Amherst College, and well- 

 known for his collections and writings on Conchology. 



Fmnris Dominique Arago, the French mathematician, astronomer and statesman ; 

 one of the most eminent men of the 19th century. 



Dr. Bailey, an English medical writer. 



Dr. Lewis C. Beck, Professor of Chemistry, Albany Medical College, N. T. 



Lieut. M. Belloit, an officer of the French navy, distinguished for his researches 

 for Sir John Franklin. Drowned while attached to Kennedy's expedition. 



Prof. Benedict, formerly Ast. U S. Coast Survey. 



Prof. Cfiarles Caldivell, of Kentucky. 



