The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e Boylston prize,he went to Paris to continue his medical visiting Vienna, in 1831, he aided in perform-ing autopsies on about 300 victims of an epidemicof cholera, a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e Boylston prize,he went to Paris to continue his medical visiting Vienna, in 1831, he aided in perform-ing autopsies on about 300 victims of an epidemicof cholera, a detailed account of which was pub-lished in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journalin 1833. The means of obtaining an electric sparkfrom a magnet having been discovered at this time,he made experiments with a view to the utilizationof electricity for telegraphy. On his return voyage,in 1833, he had as a fellow passenger Samuel F. , to whom, so he always maintained, he madeknown the general idea of the magnetic telegraphand of the principles on which it depended. In1834 he exhibited and successfully operated a tele-graphic apparatus similar to that patented a yearlater by Morse, and he always claimed priority ofinvention. He began the practice of medicine inBoston, but this was interrupted by the demand forhis services as a chemist and mineralogist. Duringthe summers of 1837 and 1839, with his c.^ .ursJUnJCte 98 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA ^/^^^L.::r Francis Alger, he had studied the mineralogy andgeology of a part of Nova Scotia, and his reports,published in the American Journal of Science(1828-29), followed by some Remarks on the samesubject in the Memoirs of the American Academyof Science in 1833, had made him prominent as ascientist. He was appointed state geologist of Mainein 1886, and in 1837 was engaged by that state andMassachusetts to survey public lands owned by thelatter in the formers territory. Three years werespent in this work, which required the pu
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