THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
[THIRD SERIES] 
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, son of Benjamin Silliman the founder 
of this Journal, and long one of its editors, died at New 
Haven, Connecticut, on the fourteenth of January, 1886. 
Mr. Silliman was born in New Haven, on the fourth of 
December, 1816. His mother, Harriet Trumbull, was the 
daughter of Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the State of Con- 
necticut from 1798 to 1809. Surrounded from his childhood 
by an atmosphere of science, he early made acquisitions in 
chemistry and mineralogy, and exhibited also much interest in 
the practical arts and mechanics. He entered Yale College in 
August, 1833, and was graduated four years later, with the 
Class of 1837, a class which included an unusual number of 
men who have since had prominent positions in the country. 
Before graduation, in the summer of 1836, he began his mining 
€Xplorations in a visit with his father to the gold region of 
irginia, a report on which, over thirty pages in length, by his 
ather, 18 contained in volume xxxii of this Journal. 
AM. Jour. rele 4 Serres, Vou. XXIX, No. 170.—Fxs., 1885. 
