OBITUARY 



OF MEN EMINENT IN SCIENCE. 1862. 



Baldwin, James F., a distinguished American engineer. 



Barlow, Professor, an eminent English physicist, well known for his experi- 

 ments on the strength of materials. 



Barrett, Lucas, Director of the Geological Survey of the British West Indies ; 

 drowned while investigating the structure of coral reefs by a diving-bell. 



Biot, M., one of the most illustrious scientific men of France. 



Brodie, Sir Benjamin, President of the Royal Society, G. B. 



Bronn, Dr. Henrich G., the well-known German paleontologist. 



Brownell, Dr. Charles C., botanist to the Pethrick Expedition to the Sources 

 of the Nile. 



Buckle, H. T., author of the " History of Civilization." 



Curtiss, John, an English entomologist. 



Ellet, Charles, Jr., a distinguished American engineer ; died of wounds received 

 in a naval engagement on the Mississippi. 



Gasparin, M. De, a French physicist. 



Hainmel, Dr., a well-known Russian scientist. 



Herrick, Edward C., of New Haven, Conn. 



Hosking, Professor, an English writer of note on architecture and engineering. 



Jacob, Capt. W. S., astronomer of the East India Observatory, India. 



James, C. T., inventor of James's rifled cannon projectile: killed by a prema- 

 ture explosion. 



James, Dr. Edwin, best known as the botanist and historian to Long's Expe- 

 dition to the Rocky Mountains in 1820; and a naturalist of eminence. 



Leonhard, Professor, a German geologist and writer, associate of M. Bronn. 



Manross, Newton Spaulding, an American mining engineer and chemist ; killed 

 at the battle of Antietam. 



Maudslay, Joseph, a celebrated English inventor and engine-builder. 



Mitchel, O. M., the astronomer, and General, U. S. A. 



Montbeliard, M., a French naturalist ; died in the jungles of Tonquin. 



Nesbit, Professor, an English agricultural chemist. 



Parkman, Theo., an American chemist, killed in battle. 



Perley, W. H., of New Brunswick ; a naturalist, well known for his investiga- 

 tions in relation to fish and fisheries. 



Prout, Hiram A., Dr., of St. Louis, an American naturalist. 



Renwick, Prof. James, of New York. 



Robinson, Prof. Edward, an American philologist. 



Ross, Alexander M., designer of the Victoria Tubular Bridge, Montreal. 



Ross, Sir James Clark, the arctic navigator. 



Senarmont, Henri De, Professor of Mineralogy, School of Mines, Paris. 



Serres, Marcel De, an eminent French geologist. 



Stevens, Gen. Isaac T. ; distinguished for his surveys and explorations of North- 

 ern America ; killed in battle. 



Stewart, Thomas H., an English naturalist. 



Tkoreau, Henry D., an American naturalist. 



Traill, Dr., of Edinburgh, author of a well-known work on Medical Jurispru- 

 dence. 



Vicat, Louis Joseph, a distinguished French engineer, best known for his re- 

 researches into the nature of cements. 



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