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ing president. Acting professor of geology at Marietta College, 1846. Agricultural 

 chemist to the State and secretary of the State board of agriculture, Ohio, 1850-1854. 



Biogr. Lamb's Diet, of the U. S. 

 Meek, Fielding Bradford. Paleontologist. 



.Born in Madison, Ind., December 10, 1817; died in Washington City, December 

 21, 1876. Assistant to D. D. Owen, surveys of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 

 1848-49. Assistant to James Hall, 1852-1858. Associated with F. V. Hayden on 

 the Western Surveys beginning with 1853. In 1858, removed to Washington, where 

 he continued to reside until his death. 



Biogr. C. A. White, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1896. 

 Mitchell, Elisha. Naturalist. 



Born in Washington, Conn., August 19, 1793; died on Black Mountain, N. C, 

 June 27, 1857. Professor of mathematics, University of North Carolina, 1818 until 

 his death, which was the result of an accident while exploring what is now known 

 as Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. He was an all-round naturalist, and remem- 

 bered for his works on the geology and general natural history of the State and the 

 Mount Mitchell localities in particular. 



Biogr. Journal, Elisha Mitchell, Sei. Soc., I, 1884, p. 6. 

 Obit. Amer. Journ. Sei. XXIV, 1857, p. 299. 



Mitch ill, Samuel Latham. Naturalist. 



Born in North Hempstead, Lnnglsland, August 20, 1764; died in New York City, Sep- 

 tember 7, 1831. Educated as a physician. In 1792-1801, professor of natural history, 

 chemistry, and agriculture in Columbia College. In 1801-1813, served in Congress. 

 In 1808-1820, professor of natural sciences in College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 

 later professor of materia medica and botany in the same institution. An extremely 

 versatile and gifted man, and one of the founders of the Society for the Promotion of 

 Agriculture, Manufacture, and the Useful Arts, in 1793. 



Biogr. H. L. Pairchild, History New York Acad. Sci., 1887, p. 57. 

 Morton, Samuel George. Conchologist and paleontologist. 



Born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 26, 1799; died in Philadelphia May 15, 1851. 

 Trained for mercantile career. Graduated at University of Pennsylvania in medicine 

 in 1820, and afterwards studied in Europe. Practiced medicine in Philadelphia. His 

 synopsis of organic remains in the Cretaceous formation of the United States gave 

 him scientific reputation. In 1839-1843, professor of anatomy in Pennsylvania Medi- 

 cal College. President, Philadelphia Academy National Sciences in 1849. 



Biogr. Wm. H. Dall. Some American Conchologists. Proc. Bio. Soc. of Washington, IV, 1886-8, 

 p. 105. 



Mudge, Benjamin Franklin. Chemist and geologist. 



Born in Orrington, Me., August 11, 1817; died in Manhattan, Kans., November 

 21, 1879. Educated as a lawyer. During 1859-60, employed as chemist in oil refin- 

 eries. In 1864, appointed State geologist of Kansas. In 1865-1873, professor of natural 

 history in the Kansas Agricultural College. 



Biogr. S. W. Williston. American Geologist, XXIII, No. 6, 1899, pp. 339-345. 

 Murray, Alexander. Geologist. 



Born at Dollerie House, Crieff, in Perthshire, Scotland, June 2, 1810; died there, 

 December 16, 1884. Came to Canada in 1843 as assistant to Logan on geological sur- 

 vey of Canada. From 1864 to 1880, engaged in making geological survey of New- 

 foundland. 



Biogr. Robert Bell. Canadian Record of Science, V, 1882-3, pp. 77-96. 

 Murrish, John M. 



Born in Cornwall, England, March 8, 1820; died in Mazomanie, Wis., August 17, 

 1886. Was superintendent of mine in Cornwall. Came to America and settled at 

 Mineral Point, Wis., about 1848. In 1860 removed to Mazomanie, Wis., where he 



