The American Geologist (Volume 21) by Newton Horace Winchell
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Author: Newton Horace Winchell
Number of Pages: 154 pages
Published Date: 03 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235650239
Download Link: The American Geologist (Volume 21)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... THE AMERICAN GEOLOGIST Vou. XXI. JANUARY, 1898. No. 1 JOSEPH FRANCIS JAMES. i 857-i 897. By G. K. Gilbert, Washington. (Plate I.) Joseph Francis James was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 8, 1857. He died in Hingham, Massachusetts, March 29, 1897. His father, Uriah Pierson James, a bookseller and publisher of Cincinnati, devoted his leisure to scientific work, chiefly the collection and study of the fossils of the Cincinnati group. As a boy Joseph was his father's companion on collecting rambles and his scientific bent was thus early acquired. Under his father's guidance he added the collecting of living plants to the collecting of fossils, and his first publications were in the field of botany. Notes on rare or abnormal plants appeared in the Botanical Gazette in 1877 and 1879, but he had already, at the age of sixteen, made a catalogue of the local flora, which was afterward publishj: by the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. In 1879 ne removed to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in business and intended to make his permanent home, but his plans were deranged by a disastrous fire and finally abandoned. He then joined a railway construction force and traveled through southern California, New Mexico and Arizona, returning to San Francisco. This slow journey in a land strongly contrasted, as to scenery and climate, with the Ohio valley was an important factor in his education, and was peculiarly effective in broadening his view of the relation of life to environment. Numerous letters to newspapers were Nyratten frqnvtfce! field, and his botanical notes were afterward.cjctensiye.ly. used in m'o.re formal writings.:: .' 'flirtarhiftg 46 Cincinnati after two years of western life, he was appointed (1881) custodian of the Society of Natural Histo...
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