OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE OR ART. 1849-50. 



Louis Count Batthyany, once Prime Minister of Hungary, and a distinguished patron of 

 science. Shot by order of Gen. Haynan. 



Carl F. Becker, the German philologist. 



Andrew Bell, a distinguished Scotch philosopher and mathematician. 



Bishop of Norwich, President of the Linnaean Society of London. 



Dr. Jlmariah Brigham, Superintendent of the New" York State Asylum for the Insane, 

 at Utica. He was distinguished, as a physician, for his successful practice, and stood in 

 the first rank of medical writers. 



Sir I. Brunei, Vice-President of the Royal Society and of the Institution of Civil En- 

 gineers. Born in France, in 1769, but during the Revolution emigrated to America, where 

 he built the first Bowery Theatre in New York. He soon went to England, where he in- 

 vented a circular saw for cutting veneers, built steamboats, and, as engineer of the Thames 

 Tunnel, gained great renown. 



Henry Coleman died of fever at Islington, London. He was a learned and able clergy- 

 man, an enlightened writer on agriculture, and had been Agricultural Commissioner for 

 the State of Massachusetts. 



James Dean, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University 

 of Vermont, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Wolfgang Dobereiner, a distinguished chemist. 



Edward ^Doubleday, a distinguished British naturalist. He visited America in 1835, and 

 made a large collection of specimens in all branches of natural history. He was Assistant 

 in the Zoological Department of the British Museum, where he devoted himself particu- 

 larly to the Lepidopterous insects, and had formed a most perfect collection of butterflies 

 and moths. 



Prof. David Douglass, Professor of Mathematics in Geneva College, N. Y. 



John Duncan, the English traveller in Africa. He accompanied the expedition to the 

 Niger, in 1842, and afterwards explored the country in various directions. 



Prof. Julius Ducatel, of Baltimore, Md. 



Prof. Stephen Endlicher, Professor of Botany at Vienna. He was well known, both as a 

 botanist and as an accomplished philologist, and held the situation of Librarian of the 

 Imperial Library at Vienna. 



William F,tly, a well-known painter. 



Dr. George Fownes, Professor of Practical Chemistry in the University College, London, 

 and author of a Manual of Chemistry. 



Edward Forster, Esq., Vice-President of the Linnfean Society of London. 



Hon. Albert Gallatin. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1761 ; came to America, 1780 ; 

 Professor of French in Harvard University, 1782 ; Secretary of the Treasury under Jeffer- 

 son, 1801; Minister to Russia, 1815, to France, 1816, to England, 1826. He paid great 

 attention to ethnological studies, and wrote much on this subject. 



Dr. Martin Gay, a distinguished chemist of Boston. 



Gottfried Hermann, Professor in the University of Leipsic, and a well-known philol- 

 ogist. 



John H. Kyan, the inventor of a chemical process for indurating wood, known as 

 "Kyanizing." At the time of his death he was making some experiments for the purifi- 

 cation of water, and was in communication with the Directors of the Croton Water-Works 

 on this subject. He died very suddenly, in New York. 



M. Laurcani, Assistant Librarian of the Vatican, at Rome. 



Mr. Charles Lyell, in Scotland, father of Sir diaries Lyell, the geologist. 



Cardinal J\fezzofanti, the distinguished linguist. 



Thomas Morton, Surgeon to the University Hospital, London, and to the Queen's Bench 

 Prison. He committed suicide by taking prussic acid. 



John Gaspard Orelli, a Swiss historian and philologist. 



