2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is an 1894 utopian novel written by Walter Browne published in New York by G. W. Dillingham.

It is one entrant in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.

[4] According to Lyman Tower Sargent, as of mid-1970s, 2894 was not available in any library; two copies were known to exist in private collections.

[5] However, a copy is available on the online library Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/2894orTheFossilMan/page/n1/mode/2up In a review, The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Browne's imagination is vivid, and some of the situations are frankly remarkable".

[6] The Sun wrote that the book was "sprightly" and "manages to have a great deal of fun".