APPENDIX P.: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 715 



Winchell, Newton Horace. Geologist. 



Born in Northeast, N. Y., December 17, 1839. Employed on geological survey of 

 Michigan in 1860; graduated from University of Michigan, 1866; assistant State geol- 

 olgist of Michigan, 1869-70; assistant geological survey Ohio, 1870-1872; editor 

 American Geologist, Minneapolis; professor of mineralogy and geology, University 

 of Michigan, and State geologist, 1872-1900. 

 "Wing, Augustus. Clergyman and teacher. 



Born in Rochester, Vt., November 19, 1808; died in Whiting, Vt., January 19, 1876. 

 Educated as a clergyman, but soon left the profession to become a teacher and inves- 

 tigator. Published practically nothing, but made very exhaustive studies of the 

 limestone, slates, and quartzites of the Otter Creek Valley, with a view of settling 

 their geological age. His results were communicated to Dana, who utilized them in 

 his papers upon the Taconic question. 



Biogr. American Geologist, XXVIII, 1901, pp. 1-8. 

 Wislizenus, Frederick Adolphus. Physician. 



Born in Koenigsee, in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Germany, May, 1810; died in 

 St. Louis, Mo., September 22, 1889. Graduated from University of Zurich in 1834. 

 Came to America in 1837, settling in St. Louis. His geological work chiefly result 

 of expedition into Mexico, report of which appeared in Washington in 1848. 

 Worthen, Amos Henry. Paleontologist. 



Born in Bradford, Orange County, Vt., October 31, 1813; died in Warsaw, 111., 

 May 6. 1888. Began life as a merchant at Warsaw, 111. Assistant to J. G. Norwood, 

 State geologist of Illinois, in 1853. Assistant to Prof. James Hall, State geologist of 

 Iowa, 1855-1857. State geologist of Illinois from 1858-1888, and curator of the State 

 Natural History Museum from 1877. His work was mainly of a paleontological and 

 stratigraphic nature, and related principally to the Carboniferous series. 

 Biogr. Chas. A. White, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Nov. 1893, pp. 341-362. ■ 

 E. O. Ulrich, American Geologist, Aug. 1888, pp. 114-117. 



Wright, Charles E. Geologist. 



Born in Copenhagen, Lewis County, N. Y., October 7, 1843; died in Marquette, 

 Mich., March 22, 1888. Began life as a civil engineer, afterwards turning his atten- 

 tion to geology and mining engineering. Commissioner of mineral statistics for 

 Michigan, 1876-1883. State geologist of Michigan, 1884-1888. His work was limited 

 mainly to the mining regions of northern Michigan. 



Biogr. American Geologist, II, 1888, pp. 307-312. 

 Wright, George Frederick. Clergyman and glacial geologist. 



Born in Whitehall, N. Y., January 22, 1838. By profession a clergyman, and in 

 1871 pastor of a Congregational church in Andover, Mass. In 1881, professor of New 

 Testament Exegesis in Oberlin Theological Seminary. Has written extensively on 

 glacial subjects, his most pretentious work being his Ice Age in North America. 

 Wurtz, Henry. Chemist. 



Born in eastern Pennsylvania, June 5, 1828. Graduated from Princeton in 1848. 

 In 1851, became instructor in- Yale scientific school. In 1853-1855, chemist of the 

 geological survey of New Jersey. 

 Wyman, Jeffries. Anatomist and vertebrate paleontologist. 



Born in Chelmsford, Mass., August 11, 1814; died in Bethlehem, N. H., Septem- 

 ber 4, 1874. Graduated from Harvard in 1833 and studied and practiced medicine. 

 Professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden Sidney College at Richmond, Va., 

 1843-1847. From 1847 to time of his death, Hersey professor of anatomy at Har- 

 vard College, Cambridge. 



Biogr. A. S. Packard, Nat. Acad. Sri., Biog. Memoirs, II, 1886. 



