Appendix B. 



BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKERS IN 



AMERICAN GEOLOGY. 



Adams, Charles Baker. Conchologist and geologist. 



Born in Dorchester, Mass., January 11, 1814; died in St. Thomas, West Indies, 

 January 18, 1853. Graduated at Amherst in 1834, and took up study of theology at 

 Andover, leaving there to join E. Hitchcock on geological survey of New York. Pro- 

 fessor of chemistry and natural history in Middlebury College, Vermont, 1838-1847. 

 State geologist of Vermont, 1845-1848. In 1847 accepted professorship of zoology 

 and astronomy at Amherst. Failing health took him to West Indies, where he died. 

 Assisted greatly in making known the mollusk-fauna of Panama and West Indies. 



Biogr. Wm. H. Dall. Some American Conchologists, Proc. Biolog. Soc. of Washn., IV, 1886-88, 



pp. 112-116. 

 H. M. Seeley, Amer. Geol., XXXII, No. 1, July, 1903, pp. 1-12. 

 Thos. Bland, Amer. Jour, of Conchology, I, pp. 191-204. 1865. 



Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe. Zoologist and glacialist. 



Born in Motier, Switzerland, May 28, 1807; died in Cambridge, Mass., December 

 14, 1873. In 1832, professor in the Academy of Neuchatel. In 1846, came to United 

 States and in 1847, appointed professor of zoology and geology in Harvard Univer- 

 sity. In 1851, professor of comparative anatomy in Charleston, S. C. In 1859, 

 founded in Cambridge the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Best known as a lec- 

 turer, teacher, and authority on fossil fishes, and as the father of the glacial theory. 

 His Etudes sur les Glaciers appeared in 1840 and his Glacial System in 1847. 



Biogr. Life and Correspondence, by Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Boston, 1886. 

 Biogr. Life and Letters of Louis Agassiz, by Jules Marcou, Boston, 1895. 

 Memoir of Louis Agassiz, by Arnold Guyot. Biog. Mems. Nat. Acad. Sci., II, 1886. 

 Richard Bliss, Pop. Sci. Monthly, IV, March, 1874, pp. 608-618. 



Akerly, Samuel. Physician. 



Born , 1785; died on Staten Island, New York, July 6, 1845. Graduated 



from Columbia College, 1804. Wrote mainly on medical subjects. His principal 

 geological publication was an essay on the geology of the Hudson River. 

 AldricA, Truman Heminway. 



* Born in Palmyra, N. Y., October 17, 1848. Graduated at the Rensselaer Poly- 

 technic Institute, Troy, N. Y., as a mining and civil engineer, in 1869. Assistant 

 engineer on various railroad surveys and public works in New Jersey till 1871, when 

 he moved to Alabama and became interested in coal mining. His publications are 

 mainly on coal and recent shells and Tertiary fossils. 

 Alger, Francis. 



Born in Bridgewater, Mass., March 8, 1807; died in Washington, D. O, November 

 27, 1863. In 1826-27, made collecting trips into Nova Scotia, and in 1828-29, 

 explored in the same Province with C. T. Jackson. In 1844, published an edition of 

 Phillips's Mineralogy. 



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