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Jackson (CHARLES THOMAS an American)

CHARLES THOMAS, an American scientist; born in Plymouth, Mass., June 21, 1805; was graduated at Harvard Medical College in 1829, and practiced in Boston; became State geologist for Massachusetts and Maine in 1836, and land-surveyor and State geologist for Rhode Island in 1839; appointed to survey the Lake Superior copper-min- He claimed to have prize Academy of Sciences in 1852.

States in Michigan" (1849); etc. lished a "Manual of Etherization, with a History of its Discovery" (1861); "Report on the Mineral Lands of the United died in Somerville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1880.

See ANÆSTHESIA.

He age in the Arctic seas.