142 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
N. Y., where = resent the degree of A.B., and ‘sabbelieeitlly of AM. 
For - several y rs, g in 1880, he gave lectures on spin 
degree of M.D. 
is 1836 he was appointed Prof. of Chemistry in the Medical College 
of Louisiana, at New Orleans; at present the Medical Department of the 
University of Louisiana, now under the patronage of the State, which 
chair he retained, and filled with great, credit till his death. In 1838 he 
was appointed “ ‘Melter and Refiner” in the Branch Mint, an office he 
held till 1849. 
His contributions to science have been of a varied hata re, In 1 
pe Cincinnati, O., he published a catalo ogue of plants, entitled “A synipe 
3 of the Flora of the Western States,” including 1800 different species, 
the earliest work of any importance specially devoted to the Botany 9 
the West. Subsequently he published a catalogue of the plants of 
Louisana comprising some 2300 species. In the Western States, in 
— and in Texas, he was the discoverer of numerous new species 
of plan His name is indelibly impressed on the science in the genus 
os Hiddellia,” named from him. He prepared the materials for the pub- 
lieation of a work on the botany of the Southern part of the United 
States, and Jeaves a very large and well arranged Herbarium 
In 1845, he prelate ‘ " Monograph of the Dollar,” with fac-simile 
impressions of between five and six hundred varieties of American te 
Mexican dollars and half dollars, beth genuine and counterfeit, with 
In 1836 his thesis on “ Miasm and Contagion” was published in n Cin- 
cinnati, and he, soe in Boston, in which he advocated the theory 
that “ organized and living corpuscles “of various kinds” were the agents 
of commu isla in contagious diseases; and in this he was one of the 
ster to adopt that theory which seems now to be so ah gaining 
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known and appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic. He invented 
Binocular ar Microscope which gave the student in microscopy an adyan- 
ee never before enjoy 
As a lecturer on chemistry i in the University of Louisiana, he was Te 
markable for per aere: ot a eg diction. He enjoyed the highest 
lated and left to his family a large and productive property. 
