Death of Professor Blake.

Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics at Columbia College, and from 1870 until last June filled the chair of physics of Brown. He was a member of many scientific bodies.