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Among still others who were either members of the community or who 

 visited New Harmony in the early days should be mentioned the following: 



Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef, a native of Alsace and an officer of the 

 Rhine, for some time an assistant of Pestalozzi at Neufchatel, whose 

 system of education he was the first to introduce in America. Both DaAdd 

 Dale Owen and Richard Owen married daughters of Professor Neef. Madame 

 Mary D. Fratageot, an able Pestalozzian teacher and head of the Industrial 

 School; Frances Wright, anti-slavery lecturer; Maximillian von Neu Wied, 

 Prince. Prussian classicist and naturalist who visited New Harmony twice; 

 Sir Charles Lyell, the English geologist; H. R. Schoolcraft, artist and In- 

 dian authority; Josiah Warren, merchant, printer and musician; Dr. Gerard 

 Troost, geologist and naturalist, for whom Holbrook named the yellow-bellied 

 terrapin (Pseudemys troosli); John Chappelsmith, artist and engineer, who 

 made the cuts of fossils for various scientific reports of that day; Robert 

 Henry B'auntleroy, a native of Virginia, prominent in the U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey, who studied at New Harmony magnetic declination and inten- 

 sity; J ames Sampson, born in Boston, 180B, came to New Harmony about 1825 

 where he died 1890, collector of natural history specimens, especially land 

 and freshwater shells and archaeological specimens; Col. Charles Whittlesay, 

 geologist; F. B. Meek, eminent paleontologist; Leo Lesquereux, distinguished 

 paleobotanist; E. T. Cox, a Virginian, state geologist of Indiana 1868-1880, 

 who got his training under the Owens; Dr. Elderhurst, eminent chemist; Dr. 

 C. C. Parry, noted botanist; and Prof. A. H. Worthen, state geologist of 

 Illinois 1858-1886. 



All of these had more or less to do with the development of science, 

 literature and art in Indiana. 



To us the most important of these was Thomas Say, who has been called 

 "the Father of American Entomology," "the Father of American Conchology," 

 and, as if that were not enough, "the Father of American Zoology." 



Thomas Say was born in Philadelphia, July 27, 1787. As a child his 

 greatest delight was in collecting beetles and butterflies. In 1825 he was in- 

 duced to accompany William Maclure and the Owens to New Harmony 

 where "science and letters, it was confidently affirmed, would soon arise 

 like the orient sun to enlighten our benighted western world." 



And the prophesy was not entirely lacking of fulfillment. New Harmony 

 did become, and remain for many years, the literary, scientific and art center 

 west of the Alleghenies; and even to this day, it continues to hold its place 

 among the most enlightened and cultured communities in a state distinguished 

 for its scientific and literary prestige. 



Before going to New Harmony, Thomas Say had already made valuable 

 contributions to entomological literature. At New Harmony and in the 

 surrounding country he found a rich field and he continued without abate- 

 ment his collecting of specimens and describing of new species. 



During the ten years which Say lived at New Harmony, he devoted all 

 his leisure time to his favorite pursuits. 



