394 JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY. 



February 2, 1893. Many learned societies numbered him among their 

 members. He was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 

 1872, and was one of the four Honorary Fellows of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. He was admitted in 

 1875 to our own Academy. 



1893. Wolcott Gibbs. 



JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY. 



John Strong Newberry was descended from several of the 

 noted families of Connecticut. Of these, three, Pitkin, Wolcott, 

 and Newberry, contributed very largely to the conduct of affairs in 

 Colonial times. And there are probably no two families in the 

 United States that have produced as many men of note on the 

 bench, in politics, and in science as have the Pitkin and Wolcott 

 families in the male and female lines of descent. 



Dr. Newberry's grandfather, General Roger Newberry, son of 

 Captain Roger Newberry and Elizabeth Newberry, daughter of 

 Governor Roger Wolcott, had acquired a tract of several thousand 

 acres in Ohio. His father, Henry, removed to this land in 1824, 

 where he founded the town of Cuyahoga Falls, and was successful 

 in his enterprises. Dr. Newberry was born in Windsor, Connecti- 

 cut, December 22, 1822, and was not two years old at the time of 

 this removal. 



Professor Newberry was one of the most eminent of the small 

 group of American geologists whose labors span almost the last 

 half of this century, and extend over a wide range in their science. 

 They are — too soon we must say they were — men who, in con- 

 ducting the great geological reconnoissances throughout the un- 

 known West, or in organizing and executing State geological 

 surveys, became broadly educated in the science which they were 

 helping to build up. Some of them were specialists in one or more 

 departments, but all necessarily became general geologists. 



Dr. Newberry's early life was passed under conditions of afflu- 

 ence and intelligent refinement, leaving him free to follow his 

 intellectual bent. Already as a boy he was deeply interested in 

 natural science, and had become familiar with the plants and 

 animals of his State. In collecting the fossil plants of the coal 

 niims near his home, he laid the foundation of what became later 

 perhaps liis most important specialty. Roth in college and dur- 

 ing 1849 and 1850 in Paris he prepared himself to be a physician, 



