Bio:Frank Atkins

This is likely the same person as the Francis Henry Atkins who received patent 556 in England, on Feb. 14, 1873, for "Improvements in apparatus and in the materials and appliances employed for the filtration of water, sewage, and other fluids, whereby manure and other valuable products are separated, precipitated, and obtained therefrom." [Chemical news and journal of industrial science, V. 28, July 4, 1873, p. 241.]