OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1857. 



Anderson, M., an explorer, killed in Southern Africa. 



Archer, J. Scott, inventor of the collodion process. 



Bailey, Prof. J. W., the eminent microscopist. 



Ball, Dr. Robert, an eminent Irish naturalist. 



Beaufort, Admiral, R. N-, Hydrographer to the English Navy. 



Biela. M., the well-known astronomer. 



Bonaparte, Charles, Prince of Cannio, distinguished as an ornathologist. 



Bremmar, James, the English engineer who got off the Steamer Great Britain 



from the rocks of Dundrum Bay. 

 Britton, John, an English writer on architecture. 

 Brunnhoff, Prof. Govanni de. an Italian naturalist. 

 Caley, Sir George, a prominent English writer on science. 

 Carstenstein, Geo., Architect of the N. Y. Crystal Palace. 

 Cauchy, Augustin, a distinguished French mathematician. 

 Colla, M., director of the observatory at Parma. 

 Conybeare, Rev. W. D., the well-known English geologist. 

 Couper, Dr. William, Prof. Nat. Hist. University of Glasgow. 

 Dick, Rev. Thomas, well known from his astronomical writings. 

 Dufrenoy, A. the distinguished French mineralogist, and Chief of the School of 



Mines. 



Dumont, M. A., a Belgian geologist. 

 Flemming, Prof., a Scotch naturalist. 



Gedney, Com. U. S. N., an eminent American hydrographer. 

 Gliddon, George R., Author of "Types of Mankind," etc. 

 Gravenhorst, Dr., an eminent German geologist. 

 Graves, Capt. R. N., a distinguished English hydrographer. 

 Gray, Hon. F. C., a prominent member of the American Academy. 

 Hall, Dr. Marshall, the distinguished physiologist. 

 Heradon, Lieut. U. S. N., the explorer of the Amazon. Lost at sea. 

 Hincks, Dr., an Irish naturalist. 



Harris, Rev. Dr., author of the " Pre-Adamite Earth," etc. 

 Jahn, Dr., a celebrated Prussian mathematician. 

 Kane, Dr. Elisha K., the Arctic explorer. 

 Knapp, Dr., author of " British Grasses." 

 Lichtenstein, Dr., Prof, of Nat. Hist. University of Berlin. 

 Manny, John H., inventor of " Manny's Reaper." 

 Meyer, Prof. Antoine, an eminent mathematician, of Belgium. 

 Mitchell, Prof. Elisha, of North Carolina. 

 Murray, Robert, an English chemist. 



