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Lecture on the Constitution of Old Pastures and Meadows: Delivered January 14, 1869
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To those who had the privilege of association with Wil liam H. Brewer during the period of his long connection with Yale University as professor Of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School, whether as colleagues on the faculty, as students in his classes, or as members of that large body of New England farmers and others who looked to him for guidance on many matters connected with the public welfare, these letters will appeal strongly.
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Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer
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In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than 14,000 miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East.
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In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East.
These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, describe the new state in all its spectacular beauty and paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century. This fourth edition includes a new foreword by William Bright (1500 California Place Names) and a set of maps tracing Brewer's route.
Lecture on the constitution of old pastures and meadows, delivered January 14, 1869
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William Henry Brewer was an American botanist. He is famous for his careful study of the cereal production of the United States with special reference to distribution of production in accordance with geographical and climatic features. He was also pioneering in public health work, actively participating in the duties of the American Public Health Association.
Background
William Henry Brewer was born on September 14, 1828 in Poughkeepsie, New York and was of Dutch and French Huguenot ancestry. His father, Henry, was a descendant of Adam Brouwer Berkhoven who came to New Amsterdam in 1642. The name Berkhoven was dropped about 1700, and Brouwer used as the family name, but later changed to Brower and after the Revolution to Brewer. William's mother, Rebecca DuBois, was a descendant of Louis DuBois who in 1660 settled in the Huguenot colony in Ulster County, New York.
Education
William Brewer spent his boyhoood on a farm near Ithaca. At Ithaca Academy where he had his early schooling he developed a keen interest in plants and minerals which led to the reading of such books as he could obtain dealing with geology, botany, and chemistry, and especially their applications to agriculture.
Encouraged by his parents, he entered in 1848 the new school of science at Yale, now the Sheffield Scientific School, where he graduated in 1852 with the first class to obtain a degree.
Under Silliman, Dana, and J. P. Norton his interest in science was greatly stimulated, and in 1855 he went abroad for further study, spending a year at Heidelberg under Bunsen in chemistry, and a year in Munich with Liebig.
Career
Botany and geology always occupied Brewer's attention, so he made many excursions through Germany, Switzerland, and France botanizing and geologizing. After that for four years, 1860-64, William Brewer worked in the wilds of California as first assistant to Josiah D. Whitney in the geological survey of the state, gaining intimate knowledge of its geography, geology, and botany. As he wrote in his diary, during the first two years he traveled 2, 067 miles on foot, 3, 900 miles on mule-back, and 3, 210 by other conveyance. Nothing escaped his eyes, mountains were measured and named, valleys mapped, minerals and plants collected.
Of plants he collected about 2, 000 species, the basis of his work on the flora of California, published by Brewer and Sereno Watson, under the title of "Polypetal', " in Volume I of the Geological Survey of California. From 1864 to 1903 he held the chair of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale.
As a member of the National Academy of Sciences he was active in the study of many questions submitted by the national government, such as the manufacture of glucose sugar from starch (1882); the sorghum sugar industry; preservation of the forest resources of the country (1896); desirability of scientific explorations of the Philippine Islands (1903). To the annual reports of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture he was a constant contributor for twenty-five years on a great variety of topics of interest to the farmer, such as the origin and constitution of soils; woods and woodlands; tree planting with reference to sanitary effects; pollution of streams; the art of stock breeding.
In 1903 Brewer retired from teaching, and died at his New Haven, Connecticut home in 1910. He was buried at Grove Street Cemetery.
Brewer was a man of great versatility, an explorer in all the sciences underlying agriculture, never a specialist in the modern sense, but contributing much in many fields.
Membership
He was a member of the American Public Health Association.
Connections
In 1858 Brewer married Angelina Jameson, who died in 1860, and in 1868 he married Georgiana Robinson.