OBITUARY 



OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1858. 



Barnston, James, Professor of Botany, McGill College, Toronto. 



Biosoletto, Signer, an Austrian chemist and botanist. 



Blyth, Dr. George L., an English chemist, well known for his labors in sanatory 

 reform. 



Bonpland, Aime,the well-known associate of Humboldt. 



Brown, Robert, an eminent English botanist. 



Brown, Samuel, an eminent Scotch chemist, and scientific essayist. 



Cleveland, Parker, the distinguished American mineralogist. 



Comstock, Dr. J. L , widely known as the author of many elementary scientific 

 treatises. 



Combe, Dr. George, of Scotland. 



Cragin, Dr. F. W., a naturalist of Surinam, Parimaribo. 



Deane, Dr. James, a well-known geologist, and discoverer of the foot-prints in 

 the sandstone of the Connecticut Valley. 



Duncan, J., Professor of Mathematics, St. Andrew's College, Scotland. 



Eisenbeck, Kas Von, an eminent German naturalist. 



Frazer, Lt. Col. Alexander, R. E. 



Gregory, Dr. William, Professor of Chemistry, University of Scotland, and well 

 known as a scientific author. 



Griffiths, Mrs., of Torquay, England, a distinguished algologist. 



Hale, Foster, inventor of raised letters for the blind. 



Hare, Robert, the eminent American chemist. 



Laradel, Count de, proprietor of the boracic acid works, of Tuscany, Italy. 



Linaria, Father Sante, a distinguished Italian physicist. 



Louden, Mrs. Jane, well known from her botanical writings. 



Mareska, M , Professor of Chemistry, University of Ghent. 



Muller, Johannes, the eminent German physiologist and naturalist. 



North, Dr. Erasmus D., an American microscopist. 



Orbigny, Alcide de, the eminent French geologist and paleontologist. 



Pattinson, Hugh Lee, inventor of the silver-lead process. 



Peacock, George, Dean of Ely, eminent as a mathematician. 



Pease, Edward, of England, a friend and associate of George Stephenson in 

 originating the railway system of Great Britain. 



Pfeiffer, Madam Ida. 



Plainer, Prof, author of treatise on the blowpipe. 



Ponton, M. de, of Stockholm, an associate of Berzetius, and a naturalist. 



Reid, Sir William, well known for his investigations on the laws of storms. 



Royle, Dr. J. Forbes, best known from his publications on the botanical produc- 

 tions of India. 



Schlagintweit, Adolphe, a German naturalist and explorer, supposed to be mur- 

 dered in Cashmere, Central Asia. 



Shattuck, Dr. Lemuel, of Boston, Mass., a well-known statistician. 



Snow, Dr. John, of London, distinguished for his researches on anaesthesia. 



Temmick, Herr, a well-known ornithologist of Holland. 



Travers, Dr. Benjamin, F. R. S., President Royal College of Surgeons. 



Turner, Dawson, an English botanist 



Tilesius, W. G., the naturalist of Krusenstein's (Russian) expedition. 



Young, Ira, Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, N. H. 



