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OBITUARY. 
Death of Dr. Lewis C. Beck.—This melancholy event occurred at 
Albany on the 20th of April, 1853, in the 55th year of his age. At 
the time of his decease, he held the offices of Professor of Chemistry 
gers College, New Jersey, and Professor of 
Chemistry in Albany Medical College. Of retiring habits, pete to 
u ; ver 
vious to his decease; his health had been feeble, and his strength ap- 
parently failing. His devotion to his duties was however unremitted. 
The best pieaacel of Dr. Beck isa list of his writings, the most 
important of which are stated below. 
A abt of the States Ce paeea and Missouri, &c. Albany, 1823. (This work 
s num ison engravings and descriptions of Indian remains, obtained from 
awe sona | observation. 
New Yo Gp Medical = Physical Journal. 
: acts relative to a disease “Geist known as sick stomach or milk 
sickness, 
Vo on — _ a new species of Ranunculus (lacustris), by L. C. Beck 
an ary mes G. 
Vol. 2. An sll of the question, whether the climate of the valley of 
Misisippi un under similar parallels of latitude is warmer than that of the 
tae 
Vol. 4, An rea of the Small Pox, Varioloid and Chicken Pox, which pre- 
vailed at Albany in Mags a ae nem s on the identity of these diseases and 
the pepe ive pow 
Vol. 5. An account of | the Salts ie at Salina, Onondaga County, New York, 
visi chemical examination of sae ah and of the several varieties of salt 
manufacture d at Salina and Syrac 
Vol. 7, Notice and chemical mt caged of the mineral water recently discov- 
ered in the city of Albany. 
. Gene 
Vol. 6 ral view: e formation of Phosphuretted hydrogen. 
Vol. 7 sa the nature of the compounds usually ee Chlorids of Soda, Lime, 
ce remarks on their uses as disinfecting ag: 
Tmiatieldas 4 of the Albany Institut 
old he Geographical wi of the United States. Part I. 
Silliman’s Journ 
Vol. 10. Contri butions towards the Botany of the States oo and Missouri. 
Vor +. Researches on the Commercial oe of the State of N Bib rk. 
Vol. 36. Note on the New Brunswick Tornado or Water ‘Spout of 1 
Vol. 36. Wight - ~~ opper, Ores of as and other sess found 
Vol. $6 "Re markable examples of ——- and Contraction, é&e. 
Vol. 45. Views concerning gneous 
AM Pst of Chemistry, 1831. This work oe ak through fog editior 
Official Report on Cholera, made to Gov vernor Throop, Au ugust, 1832, » This paper 
gical 
Botany of the Northern and ngreen! hes ie rding to ‘he Natural Sys- 
m, 1833, and 1848. (Two ed 
The Natural Beet A of New eck Mig ralogy. Tn 4to. ae Li gee 
This work was preceded by several Annual Reports to he Legislature on 
Same subject. 
Adulteraiions of various substances used in Medicine and the Arts. 1846. 
* This work was edited by his brother, John B, Beck, M.D. 
