What the U. S. Sanitary Commission Is Doing in the Valley of the Mississippi: Letter From Dr. J. S. Newberry to Hon. W. P. Sprague (Classic Reprint)
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Cairo, Mound City, Bardstown, Bowling Green, Columbus, Covington, Columbia, Danville, Louisville, Lebanon, Lexington, Paducah, Perryville.
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The Later Extinct Floras of North America (Classic Reprint)
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Brief descriptions of fossil plants, chiefly Tertiary. From western North America: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. V, 1882 february and March, pp. 502 - 514.
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Food And Fiber Plants Of The North American Indians (1887)
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Biographical Memoir Of John Strong Newberry, 1822-1892
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The Club meets regularly at Columbia College, 4oth Street and Madison Avenu New York City, on the second Tuesday of each month, except July and August, 8 o'clock, P. M. Botanists are cordially invited to attend.
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Yet earthquakes are neither novel nor mysterious, but are among the most common and simplest of terrestrial phenomena; they have certainly recurred at frequent intervals throughout all geo logical time of which we have any record, and it is probable that now, not an hour, perhaps not a minute, passes, but more or less violent vibrations take place somewhere on the earth's surface. In later years, earthquakes have been carefully studied in many countries by geologists and physicists, and the conclusions reached have been so generally harmonious that there is now very little difference of opinion as to their cause, and the manner in which this cause operates.
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Notes on the Geology and Botany of the Country Bordering the Northern Pacific Railroad (Classic Reprint)
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Further west, with every kind of soil, geological structure and topography, there are he trees, but everywhere grass while east of the Mississippi and beyond the battle-ground between the two forms of vegetation, all kinds of topography, soil and geological substructure are covered with forest. No one who has traversed the continent, as I have done, along several parallels of latitude, and has studied the relations of vegetation to soil and geological structure, will fail to find conclusive evidence that the influence which has determined. The kind and quantity of vegetation in the varied topographic and climatic districts of the West, is the rainfall.
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Report of the Exploring Expedition From Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West in 1859
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John Strong Newberry was an American geologist and paleontologist.
Background
John Strong Newberry was born on December 22, 1822 in Windsor, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Strong) Newberry and a descendant of Thomas Newberry who came from Devonshire, England, to Dorchester, Massachussets, about 1634. When he was two years his father moved the family to Ohio, where he founded the town of Cuyahoga Falls in the Western Reserve. Engaging in various enterprises including coal mining, then an entirely new industry, he prospered and was able to bring up his family of nine children in reasonable comfort and amid agreeable surroundings.
Education
John received his early education in the local schools and a special school in the adjoining town of Hudson, then entered Western Reserve College, where he graduated in 1846 at the age of twenty-four. During his last two years in college he also studied medicine, and in 1848 graduated from the Cleveland Medical School. In the autumn of 1849 he went abroad to study in the medical schools of Paris, where he also attended geological lectures by distinguished scientists.
Career
Returning to America in 1851, Newberry settled down to the practice of medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and is said to have been very successful. While thus engaged, he received an appointment as assistant surgeon on an expedition under command of Lieut. R. S. Wilkinson, organized for the purpose of exploring the country along the line of the projected Pacific Railroad from San Francisco Bay to the Columbia River. In January 1856, the work completed, he accompanied the rest of the party to Washington, where they spent the remainder of the year in the preparation of the report. While here Newberry became associated with the Smithsonian Institution and also received appointment as professor of geology in Columbian (now George Washington) University.
In 1857 he was appointed physician and naturalist to the expedition under Lieutenant J. C. Ives, sent out to make a military exploration of the Colorado River. After ascending that stream from its mouth to a point called Fortification Rock, north of the 40th Parallel, the explorers returned to Washington in the early summer of 1858. The following year Newberry was again in the field, this time as member of a topographic surveying party under Captain J. N. Macomb, exploring the region northwest of Santa Fé as far as the Colorado and Green rivers. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered upon duty with the United States Sanitary Commission (June 1861), remaining in this service until the close of the war.
In 1866, after a short association with the Smithsonian Institution, he was chosen professor of geology and paleontology in the School of Mines of Columbia University, New York, a position which he held for the rest of his life.
He is to be credited with an influential part in the organization of the School of Mines. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he was state geologist of Ohio, 1869-74. In this capacity he met with the usual obstacles of an unappreciative legislature, aggravated perhaps by the fact that he postponed publication of the economic results of the survey until the last, thereby giving cause for the complaint that too much attention was being devoted to the academic subject of paleontology.
His best-known works and those upon which his reputation largely rests were his two volumes on the paleontology of the Ohio Survey; Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley (1888); and The Paleozoic Fishes of North America (1889), the last two published as Monographs XIV and XVI of the United States Geological Survey.
As a scientist Newberry was of the old school, a general naturalist rather than a specialist. He had been attracted in boyhood by the abundant plant remains in the coal mines near Cuyahoga Falls and had made large collections. Fossil plants and fishes remained always his favorites; he rarely touched upon the broader tectonic problems.
He died at his home in New Haven in 1892 from a stroke of apoplexy sustained some two years earlier.
Achievements
Newberry received many scientific honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1867, the vice-presidency of the Geological Society of America in 1889, and the presidency of the International Geological Congress in 1891. In 1888, he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.
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Personality
As a teacher Newberry was eminently successful. His relations with his students were always kindly; he was never too busy to receive a caller; never trivial, flippant, or superficial.
Personally, Newberry is represented by those who knew him best as of a cheerful and buoyant temperament, fond of companionship, but with a sensitive and delicate spirit that sometimes subjected him to periods of depression.
Though his domestic ties were strong, he was separated from his family in his early days by his western explorations and army service.
Interests
Music & Bands
Newberry was fond of music and played the violin.
Connections
In 1848 Newberry married Sarah Brownell Gaylord of Cleveland, Ohio. They had five sons and one daughter.
