The Geology and Paleontology of the Huancavelica Mercury District
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Contributions to the paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile; five papers
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The Physical Conditions Indicated by the Flora of the Calvert Formation
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Flora of the Matawan formation (Crosswick's clays)
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Paleobotany: A Sketch Of The Origin And Evolution Of Floras
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The affinities and distribution of the lower Eocene flora of southeastern North America
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The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia
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Edward Wilber Berry was an American paleobotanist and educator. He also was professor of Johns Hopkins University.
Background
Edward Berry was born on February 10, 1875 in Newark, New Jersey, United States, the first of three children and elder son of Abijah Conger Berry and Anna (Wilber) Berry and a descendant of Henry Berry, who migrated from England to northern New Jersey before 1747. His father was working as a clerk when Edward was born. In later years he was a partner in a grocery and a salesman.
Education
Edward Berry was evidently a precocious youth: as a teenager he collected fossils in the Raritan Bay region, taught himself French and German, and, after two years at the Passaic high school, graduated at age fifteen. In 1930 he received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Lehigh.
Career
From 1890 to 1897 Edward worked as office boy and then as traveling salesman for a New York cotton goods outlet. During this period, influenced by the work of Jacob A. Riis, he and two other young men started a successful movement to found a social settlement in Passaic. Berry next joined the Passaic Daily News, where over an eight-year period he was variously business manager, managing editor, president, and treasurer. Meanwhile he was actively pursuing an interest in geology and botany. While with the Daily News he published an influential series of articles in scientific journals on New Jersey paleobotanical systematics.
When in 1905 William Bullock Clark, chairman of the geology department at the Johns Hopkins University and Maryland state geologist, whom he had met through the Torrey Club, urged him to help in the preparation of reports on Maryland's Cretaceous flora for the state geological survey, Berry resigned his newspaper post to resume his education. Although he spent 1905-06 as a special student and 1906-1908 as assistant to Clark in geology, he never took a degree at Johns Hopkins. Lack of college credentials, however, did not hinder Berry from advancing rapidly at Hopkins, from instructor (1907 - 1910) to associate (1910 - 1913), associate professor (1913 - 1917), and professor (1917 - 1942). He also served as dean of the college of arts and sciences (1929 - 1942) and provost of the university (1935 - 42).
Berry became a geologist (1910 - 1917) and senior geologist (1917 - 1942) at the United States Geological Survey. He also served as assistant state geologist of Maryland (1917 - 1942). The crisp style of his scientific writing and the rapid appearance of his articles reflected his journalistic background, which also prepared Berry for the editorial posts he held with the Pan American Geologist, Botanical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, and the American Journal of Science.
Berry's success as a scientist despite his lack of a degree made him skeptical of pompous and irrelevant elements in college teaching and administration; he had a habit of calling bunk just that, and his forthrightness earned him animosity in some quarters. During the late 1920's and early '30's Berry aided in the revision of the Johns Hopkins curriculum away from majors and requirements toward field examinations. Despite his distrust of the disciple system, he trained some noted paleontologists, including his own sons, Edward Willard Berry and Charles Thompson Berry. Although his scientific work demonstrated Berry's competence in the emerging field of paleoecology, he concentrated on taxonomic paleobotany.
Berry pioneered in the paleobotany of South America, leading the Williams expedition to the Andes in 1919 and collecting in Peru and Ecuador in 1927 and Venezuela in 1933. He published continually on South American paleontology until his death. He died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of seventy while visiting his son Charles in Stonington, Connecticut. His remains were cremated.
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Religion
Reared as a Presbyterian, Berry later became a member of the Congregational Church.
Membership
Edward Berry was a member of the Torrey Botanical Club; the Paleontological Society of America; the Geological Society of America; the National Academy of Sciences.
Connections
On April 12, 1898 Edward Berry was married to Mary Willard, daughter of the Passaic postmaster, William Alpheus Willard. They had two sons: Edward Willard Berry and Charles Thompson Berry.