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Jacob Green was born on July 26, 1790, in Philadelphia, where his father, Ashbel Green, was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. His mother was born Elizabeth Stockton.
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A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America
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Jacob Green
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As a boy, Green was interested in botany. At the age of seventeen, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and two years later, published, in collaboration with Ebenezer Hazard, An Epitome of Electricity and Galvanism (1809).
Turned aside from medicine by the crude surgery of the day - his M. D. from Yale in 1827, was honorary - he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practice.
He was the recipient of four honorary degrees.
Career
Green continued his scientific pursuits, published a Catalogue of the Plants Indigenous to the State of New York (1814), and in 1818, was made a professor of chemistry, experimental philosophy, and natural history in the College of New Jersey, of which his father had become president.
He resigned his position in 1822, accepted three years later the first professorship in chemistry at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and held it until his death.
Some of his lectures were published as Electro-magnetism (1827). In 1828, he visited England, France, and Switzerland, where, as he delightfully details in Notes of a Traveller, he made many congenial acquaintances among scientists.
On his return, he finished a Text-book of Chemical Philosophy on the Basis of Turner’s Elements (1829), which was followed by a Syllabus of a Course in Chemistry (1835) and Chemical Diagrams (1837).
Besides these textbooks, his papers in scientific journals indicate that his principal researches were in the same field as his teaching, but he also found time for studies in other branches of science.
Thus, his Astronomical Recreations (1824) was a popular elaboration on the basis of his own “evening rambles. ”
His last treatise was Diseases of the Skin (1841). Green died in Philadelphia.
Achievements
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Jacob Green was better known for his scholarly but popular presentation of compiled data than for the fundamental value or accuracy of his original contributions. His best-known contribution to biology was the paleontological Monograph of the Trilobites of North America (1832), but he also described living species of mollusks, salamanders, and lizards from the eastern United States and the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, he was attracted by some aspects of ethnology and described beads, metals, and pottery known to and used by the aborigines of North America. His work as an educator was perhaps his greatest service to his contemporaries; he evidently was popular with his students, and several have testified to the inspiration of contact with him; but his actual additions to knowledge are rather desultory, perhaps because of his wide interests. Even as a chemist he was better known for his scholarly but popular presentation of compiled data than for the fundamental value or accuracy of his original contributions.
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A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America
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A Monograph of the Trilobites of North America
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Green was unmarried.
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Religion
Presbyterian Church