712 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



Smith, John Lawrence. Mineral ogical chemist. 



Born in Charleston, S. G, December 17, 1818; died in Louisville, Ky., October 12, 

 1883. Practicing physician in Charleston, S. C, and State assayer for North and 

 South Carolina. Mining engineer to the Turkish Government, 1846-1850. Com- 

 missioner to Paris Exposition in 1867. Published many papers on the chemical com- 

 position of American minerals and was an authority on the subject of meteorites. 



Biogr. Pop. Sci. Monthly, VI, Dec. 1874, pp. 233-236. 



Biogr. Benj. Silliman. Nat. Acad. Sci., Biogr. Memoirs. II, 1886. 



Squire, Joseph. Mining engineer. 



Born in England. Came to America at age of 18. Employed in works of Peabody 

 Furnace Company, at Providence, R. I., where he learned mining. Subsequently 

 moved to Kansas. In 1859, went to Alabama and became engaged in coal mining 

 and the work of a mining engineer. After 1879 was employed part of the time by 

 State geological survey. 

 Stevenson, John James. Geologist and educator. 



Born in New York City, October 10, 1841. Graduated from New York Univer- 

 sity in 1863. United States geologist, 1873-74; with Wheeler survey west of one- 

 hundredth meridian, 1878-1880; geologist of Pennsylvania geological survey, 

 1875-1878, 1881-82; professor of geology, New York University, since 1871. 

 Swallow, George Clinton. Stratigraphic geologist. 



Born in Buckfield, Oxford County, Me., in 1817; died at Evanston, 111., April 20, 

 1899. Lecturer on botany as applied to agriculture and mechanical arts at Bowdoin 

 College, 1843; principal of Brunswick Female Seminary, 1843-1849; principal of 

 Hampden Academy, Maine, 1849; professor of chemistry, geology, and mineralogy 

 of the University of the State of Missouri, 1851-1853; State geologist of Missouri, 

 1853-1861; professor of chemistry and natural science in the University of Missouri, 

 1857-58; assistant geolbgist of Kansas, 1864; State geologist of Kansas, 1865-66; pro- 

 fessor of agriculture in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Missouri, 1870; 

 professor of botany, comparative anatomy, and physiology in medical school of Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, 1872; professor of natural sciences and dean of the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College up to 1882; State inspector of mines of Montana, 1888-89. 



Biogr. American Geologist, XXIV, July, 1899, pp. 1-6. 

 Taylor, Richard Cowling. Geologist and mining engineer. 



Born in Hinton, Suffolk, England, January 18, 1789; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 October 26, 1851. Came to America about 1830. 

 Teschemacher, James Englebert. Paleobotanist. 



Born in Nottingham, England, June 11, 1790; died in Boston, Mass., 1853. Came 

 to America February 7, 1832, and settled in Boston. A business man with scientific 

 tendencies. 

 Thompson, Zadock. Clergyman. 



Born in Bridgewater, Vt, May 23, 1796; died in Burlington, Vt,, January 19, 1856. 

 First became noted as a compiler of almanacs and from his publication of a gazetteer 

 of Vermont, which appeared in 1826. Assistant on State geological survey of Ver- 

 mont, 1845-1847. State naturalist of Vermont, 1853-1856. 



Biogr. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Dec, 1904, pp. 262-267. 



Am. Journ. Sci., XXII, 1856, pp. 44-49. 



G. H. Perkins. American Geologist, XXIX, No. 2, 1902, pp. 65-71. 



Trask, John Boardman. Surgeon. 



Born in Roxbury, Mass., 1824; died in San Francisco, Cal., July 3, 1879. Edu- 

 cated at Yale. One of the charter members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 San Francisco. Geologist on boundary survey between Mexico, California, and 

 Nevada; State geologist of California in early fifties. Assistant surgeon of volunteers 

 in civil war. 



A. \V. Vogdes, San Diego, Cal, 



