OBITUARY 



OF PEKSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1860. 



Bevan, Dr. Edward, an English entomologist, best known for his studies on 

 the bee. 



Boyclell, James, inventor of Boydell's steam-plough. 



Browne, Peter B., a lawyer of Philadelphia, best known in science for his micro- 

 scopical researches on hair. 



Brisbane, General Sir Thomas, an astronomer of repute; President of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh. 



Bunsen, Chevalier, of Prussia. 



Condie, J., of Scotland, inventor of the steam-hammer. 



Daussy, Pierre, an eminent French hydrographer. 



Dent, Frederic, an eminent clock-maker, of London. 



Dumeril, M., a French naturalist. 



Ellis, Robert Leslie, an eminent English mathematician. 



Espy, James P., the celebrated meteorologist. 



Goodyear, Charles, inventor of" vulcanized India-rubber." 



Grimm, William, the celebrated German philologist. 



Gmelin, Christian, a well-known German chemist and author. 



Hausmann, Jean F., an eminent European mineralogist. 



Holmes, Dr. William P., a well-known botanist and mineralogist, of Canada. 



LeConte, John, Vice President of the Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Locke, Joseph, an eminent English engineer. 



Owen, David Dale, a well-known American geologist. 



Payer, Jean Baptiste, a French botanist. 



Poinsot, M., an eminent French mathematician. 



Powell, Baden, of Oxford, England. 



Retzius, Professor, a German archaeologist. 



Robiquet, Edmond, Professor Physics L' Ecole de Pharmacie, Paris. 



Roscher, Dr., an African explorer, murdered by the natives of the East Coast. 



Spence, William, an English entomologist. 



Symouds, Jelinger C., a well-known English educational reformer and scientific 

 amateur. 



Todd, Dr., an eminent English physiologist. 



Webster, W. F., late Professor of Chemistry, Washington College, Pa. 



Wirtemberg, Paul, Duke of, an eminent naturalist. 



Wurdemann, Gustavus, a naturalist and physicist, long attached to the U. S 

 Coast Survey. 



