A Text-Book of Geology for Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of Science, Etc. and for the General Reader; Volume 1
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Catalogue of the Type and Figured Specimens of Fossils, Minerals, Rocks, and Ores in the Department of Geology, United States National Museum; Volume PT. 2
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A Century of Science in America, with Special Reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
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Charles Schuchert was an American paleontologist. He was the first president of the Paleontological Society.
Background
Charles was born on July 3, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, the eldest of the four sons and two daughters of Philip and Agatha (Muller) Schuchert. The father, born in Kranlucken, Saxony, was a cabinetmaker who had made his way to "free America" as a stowaway. Settling in the German community at Cincinnati, he established a furniture factory and married a native of Reussendorf, Bavaria, who had been working as a domestic and as a seamstress in a sweatshop. Schuchert later described his father as "industrious and studious, " his mother as "religious, poetic, animated. "
Education
Charles (originally Karl) attended a German Catholic school for six and a half years, but at twelve was sent to the Gundry Mercantile School to learn bookkeeping so as to enter the family business.
He managed to take drawing courses at the Ohio Mechanics' Institute, and with his father's encouragement also pursued a precocious interest in science, particularly in fossils, which abound in the Cincinnati area. He taught himself how to prepare and describe specimens and mastered the art of lithography.
Career
As his father's employee, Schuchert worked long hours for low pay.
Becoming acquainted with some of the Ohio's enthusiastic amateur fossil collectors, Schuchert in 1878 began attending meetings of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, where he formed a close friendship with Edward O. Ulrich, then curator of the society's paleontology collections.
Fire burned out the Schuchert factory in 1877, and Charles's father, bankrupt and buffeted by the business depression, fell victim to intemperance, leaving to nineteen-year-old Charles the responsibility for both family and factory. For a time Charles revived the firm, but a second fire in 1884 destroyed the plant and forced him to become a foreman in another furniture factory. Disliking this role, he was glad to exchange it for a job as Ulrich's assistant (1885 - 88) in preparing lithographs for the Illinois and Minnesota geological surveys. He also began exchanging specimens with other geologists in this country and abroad and started amassing a collection of fossil brachiopods.
By 1888 his work was large enough to draw the attention of James Hall, director of the New York geological survey, who came to Cincinnati to examine Schuchert's specimens and hired him as an assistant. Although Hall did not encourage him to publish scientific papers (and, in fact, used his work without acknowledgment), Schuchert had the use of Hall's great library and found close comrades in two fellow assistants, John M. Clarke and Charles Emerson Beecher.
In the summer of 1891 he was able to join Newton H. Winchell, state geologist of Minnesota, in studies of Minnesota brachiopods, at double his old salary and with joint authorship. Subsequently, in 1892, Beecher brought Schuchert to the Peabody Museum at Yale as a preparator, and in June 1892 he was hired by the United States Geological Survey, becoming assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology at the National Museum a year later.
For the next decade he undertook research, prepared collections, and did summer field work, including an 1897 expedition to Greenland with Robert Peary. In 1903 he represented the United States government at the International Geological Congress in Vienna, making extensive purchases and exchanges of fossils on the way. Beecher died in 1903, and the following year Schuchert succeeded him at Yale as curator of geological collections at the Peabody Museum and professor of historical geology. He was chairman of the geology department, 1909-21, acting dean of the graduate school, 1914-16, and administrative head of the museum, 1912-23.
He retired from teaching in 1925 but remained at the museum for the rest of his life, notably enriching its collections. Schuchert's own writings - 234 titles in all. His first major publication was A Synopsis of American Fossil Brachiopoda (1897), and he later produced other important summaries of the brachiopods. Many of his writings are concerned with stratigraphy, the study of rock strata and their changes throughout geologic time.
To assist his students in stratigraphy, Schuchert plotted the outcrops on outline maps, the beginning of an interest that led to his pioneering Paleogeography of North America (1910). He continued to revise his maps and planned to complete and publish them, along with an extensive text synthesizing the stratigraphic data on which they were based, in his Historical Geology of North America. Two of the projected three volumes appeared: Historical Geology of the Antillean-Caribbean Region (1935) and Stratigraphy of the Eastern and Central United States (1943). Left unfinished by his death was a volume which would have summed up the work he and his students had undertaken in Newfoundland and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, an area where Schuchert did particularly noteworthy field work.
He died in New Haven of cancer at the age of eighty-four.
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Religion
Though reared as a Roman Catholic, Schuchert became a skeptic in his teens and left the church at twenty-three, forming no other religious affiliation.
Membership
His accomplishments earned him election to twenty-five learned societies, including the National Academy of Sciences (1910).
Connections
Schuchert was a bachelor wedded to his science; his only romantic attachment had ended unhappily.