STILLMAN, Thomas Bliss, mechanical engineer, born in Westerly, Rhode Island, 30 August, 1806; died in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1 January, 1866. He was educated at Union college, and in 1832 came to New York city and took charge of the Novelty iron-works. The first line of steamships on this coast to carry passengers and freight between New York and Charleston, South Carolina, was established by him. During the civil war he was United States inspector of steam vessels for the New York district, and superintendent of construction of revenue cutters. His last work was to put twelve armed steam cutters afloat in place of the sailing vessels that had been previously used. He was also at various times president of the board of comptrollers, of the park board in New York county, and of the Metropolitan police commission. For nearly twenty years he was a trustee of the New York hospital, and he was long president of the Metropolitan savings bank. He invented improved forms of machinery that have come into use.--His brother, William James, author, born in Schenectady, New York, 1 June, 1828, was graduated at Union college in 1848, and began the study of landscape-painting under Frederick E. Church. In 1849 he went to Europe, remaining six months, and returning with a thorough belief in the new school of pre-Raphaelitism. During 1851-'9 he was a regular exhibitor at the Academy of design, of which he was elected an associate member in 1854. In 1852 he went to Hungary for Louis Kossuth, to carry away the crown jewels of the kingdom, which had been hidden by Kossuth during the revolution. Thence he went to Paris, to study under Adolphe Y-yon. On his return to the United States, in company with John Durand he founded the "Crayon," in 1855. He returned to Europe in 1859, and was United States consul in Rome during 1861-'5, and in Crete in 1865-'9. Since 1870 he has devoted himself entirely to literature. During 1875-'82 he acted as correspondent of the London "Times" in Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Greece, and in 1883-'5 he was the art critic of the New York " Evening Post " and associate editor of the "Photographic Times." Since 1886 he has resided at Rome as the London " Times's" correspondent for Italy and Greece. His published works are " Acropolis of Athens" (London, 1870); "Cretan Insurrection" (New York, 1874); " Herzegovina and the Late Uprising" (London, 1877); and " On the Track of Ulysses" (Boston, 1887). He has also edited " Poetic Localities of Cambridge" (Boston, 1875), and has contributed articles to various magazines. Mr. Stillman is an expert photographer, and in 1872-'3 published two manuals of photography. In 1872 he also brought out twenty-five photographic views of Athens, and in 1886 the Autotype company of London began the publication, for the Hellenic society, of a series of photographs from his negatives of the Acropolis.