Background
Samuel Botsford Buckley was born on May 9, 1809 at Torrey, in Yates County, New York to Robert Buckley and Mary Botsford Buckley.
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A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas, 1866 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas, 1866 Great Britain, and also in New York and other Northern States has more than doubled the amount per acre of their agricultural productions, and more than tripled the value of their lands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas When at Jefferson, last summer, I read in a newspaper of rich silver mines having just been found at the Gordon Mountain, in Montague county a large vein of silver was said to extend over and through the mountain. I meta young man who said he belonged to a party of twelve, who were going-to start next week to get silver in Mon tague c unity. From Northern Texas many went to the Gordon Mountain after silver. To see about this, we went there last September, but be fore getting to the spot, we were convinced there was no silver there, because the formation was the lower cretaceous abounding in fossils, being a sedimentary deposit formed gradually in the sea, and barren of silver but on we went, and encamped at the foot of the mountain. In its side, high up, men had dug several days, mistaking probably a thin seam containing small crystals of selenite, a form of gypsum, for a vein of silver. We could see no thing else resembling silver, excepting a few grains of sand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Botsford Buckley
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Samuel Botsford Buckley was an American botanist and field naturalist. He is noted for his field work in Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, where he obtained twenty-four new species of plants and a new genus which bears his name, as well as for his literary work based on his scientific research and observations.
Education
Samuel Buckley graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in the class of 1836, studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, 1842-43, and received the degree of Ph. D. from Waco University, Texas, in 1872.
Career
After leaving college Buckley taught for a time in Illinois and Alabama and for two years was principal of the Allenton Academy in Wilcox County in the latter state. In 1842 he visited various parts of Alabama, collecting plants, and secured a skeleton of a zeuglodon seventy feet in length.
In 1843 he went to Florida to collect plants and shells. The following twelve years were passed on the homestead farm, and then for a time in 1855 and 1856 he was employed in a bookstore at Yellow Springs, Ohio. The summer of 1858 was spent in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee in the determination of the elevation of some of the higher peaks in the southern Alleghanies, and in the following years he traveled through the South collecting material for a Supplement to Michaux and Nuttall's Sylva.
In 1860-61 he was assistant geologist and naturalist on the Texas Geological Survey and began his labors in the state which became the scene of his activities during his later years.
With the outbreak of the Civil War he returned North and from 1862 to 1865 occupied the position of chief examiner in the Statistical Department of the United States Sanitary Commission. After the close of the War Buckley returned to Texas and succeeded in securing appointment as state geologist, but the work of the survey was terminated in 1867.
Upon the organization of the Second Geological Survey of Texas he again received appointment as state geologist from 1874 to 1877 during which time he issued two reports.
In 1871-72 he was agricultural and scientific editor of the State Gazette in Austin, and for some years he was engaged in preparing a work on the geology and natural history of Texas. He also prepared several articles in 1881 for the Library of Universal Knowledge.
His death occurred in Austin, Texas.
Achievements
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Samuel Botsford Buckley achieved a fair amount of success in his field as a naturalist right from the start of his career. He started off in Alabama collecting plants, where he also discovered a skeleton of a zeuglodon seventy feet in length. He also made collections in the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, where he obtained twenty-four new species of plants and a new genus which bears his name. After his retirement from office he devoted his time largely to literary work. His more important papers included his description of the skeleton of zeuglodon and of his new plants, several entomological contributions, and the account of his work in determining elevations in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. His field work in the South, upon the organization of the Second Geological Survey of Texas, is commemorated in the names of the black-backed rock squirrel of Texas (Citellus variegatus buckleyi) and the peculiar parasitic shrub Buckleya, and in "Buckley's Peak, " one of the highest elevations in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.
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First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas (Classic Reprint)
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First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas (Classic Reprint)
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A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas, 1866 (Classic Reprint)
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First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural
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A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas 1866 Hardcover
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First Annual Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas (Classic Reprint)
Connections
He was married three times: (1) in 1852 to Charlotte Sullivan of Naples, New York, who died in 1854; (2) in 1855 to Sarah Porter of Naples who died in 1858; and (3) in 1864 to Libbie Myers of Elbridge, New York.
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