Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Arnold Hague 1840 1917 written by Joseph Paxson Iddings and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Arnold Hague 1840 1917 Classic Reprint written by Joseph P. Iddings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Arnold Hague, 1840-1917 At the end of his second year in Germany he again applied to enter the army service, saying he was entirely well and strong and felt an obligation to return. In reply he received a personal message from President Lincoln, saying in effect: Stay where you are; we shall need such as you later. In the spring Of 1865 he went to the Bergakademie, in Freiberg, Sax. Ony, where he met S. F. Emmons for the first time, who had been there the previous year. This was the beginning of an other friendship which was to continue throughout life and was to in uence the careers of both these embryo geologists who were within four months of the same age. Emmons, hav ing had a year's experience at the Bergakademie, became the adviser of Hague as to his best course and joined him in all the week-end excursions with von Cotta. They visited many parts of Saxony and studied petrology according to von Cotta's text-book. Their evenings were often spent studying the geo logical map of Saxonv and in acquiring their first experience in geological cartography. In a reference to this experience Hague has said: Both came to realize the in uence of Cotta upon our future careers, as he gave us much of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Biographical Memoirs written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1919 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.
Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Eugene Woldemar Hilgard 1833 1916 written by Benjamin Boss and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings... Index... 1915-24, 1926.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from to written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 2386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Petrologist written by Joseph Paxson Iddings and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2015 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph Paxson Iddings (1857-1920) was a central participant in the rise of theoretical petrology. His scientific autobiography, 'Recollections of a Petrologist,' recounts virtually all of his petrological exploits, as well as the ideas and contributions of many of his contemporaries"--
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the the Fifty third Congress to the 76th Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the National Research Council written by National Research Council (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Memoirs E S Dana J D Dana G Davidson S F Emmons J W Fewkes W Gibbs T N Gill A Hague J F Hayford E W Hilgard W F Hillebrand W H Holmes M A Howe T S Hunt J F Kemp Clarence King written by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board on Highway Research Division of Engineering National Rresearch Ccouncil written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of North American Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919/28 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1919/20-1935/36 issues and also material not published separately for 1927/28. 1929/39 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1929/30-1935/36 issues and also material for 1937-39 not published separately.
Download or read book Charles Doolittle Walcott Paleontologist written by Ellis Leon Yochelson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of geologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) documents his career and life from birth to his retirement from the US Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Download or read book Grinnell America s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West written by John Taliaferro and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography) Longlisted • PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell—the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America’s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro’s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh—an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers that, through his labors, would become Glacier National Park. Along the way, he became one of America’s most respected ethnologists; seasons spent among the Plains Indians produced numerous articles and books, including his tour de force, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life. More than a chronicler of natural history and indigenous culture, Grinnell became their tenacious advocate. He turned the sportsmen’s journal Forest and Stream into a bully pulpit for wildlife protection, forest reserves, and national parks. In 1886, his distress over the loss of bird species prompted him to found the first Audubon Society. Next, he and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote “fair chase” of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds—a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. And in an era when too many white Americans regarded Native Americans as backwards, Grinnell’s cries for reform carried from the reservation, through the halls of Congress, all the way to the White House. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell’s correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West. As Taliaferro’s enthralling portrait demonstrates, it was this tension that wound Grinnell’s nearly inexhaustible spring and honed his vision—a vision that still guides the imperiled future of our national treasures.
Download or read book Field Life written by Jeremy Vetter and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
