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most eminent masters, and retained the warm personal friendship 
of Elie de Beaumont, throughout life. Returning to America in 
1832 he soon abandoned medical practice and devoted his ener- 
rior invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph, is well remem- 
red, and the more acrimonious one on the subject of etherial 
paint Gian will probably never be settled to the satisfaction of 
the friends of either Jackson or Morton. The French Academy, 
after an investigation, decreed a prize of 2,500 francs to each of 
the contestants. In the erat Ae of the Royal gee oh there are 
sixty-nine titles seek Dr. son’s name, prior to 1863, and his 
name “ found often a a Gonteibintiie to the early volumes “of this 
Journ The older Gheatifist will remember his powerful blast- 
lamp ms alkaline fusions, which did good service before the eet 
duction of street gas became general in laboratories. He w 
active om te and long the president, of the Boston Society of 
Natural Hist 
Professor "ails SHERMAN Hatpeman died on Friday, the 
17th of September, at = home in Chickies, te ee ae aged 
sixty-eight years. He was born near Columbia, Pa. 812, and 
graduated at Dickinson hoshage in 1830, In 1836 he was con- 
nected with the Geological Survey of New Jersey, and the fol- 
lowing year with that of Pennsylvania. He was Professor of 
also that of Profeseo or ° of Seach and T Chemistry 3 in the A Agri rieul- 
tural College of Pennsyl He aft erward became Professor 
of Philology in the University of Pennsylvania For many years 
e worked with great zeal and success in entomology and con- 
chology, and published various memoirs, describing new species 
trated with 114 sauces es, and containing a hibliont aphy ‘eerading 
sixty references. 
