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JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY (1822-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN STRONG See also:NEWBERRY (1822-1892)  , See also:American geologist, was See also:born at See also:Windsor, See also:Connecticut, on the 22nd of See also:December 1822, and received a medical See also:education at See also:Cleveland, See also:Ohio, taking the degree of M.D. in 1848 . He completed his medical studies in See also:Paris . His See also:attention was See also:early attracted to See also:geology by See also:collecting See also:coal-measure See also:plants from mines that had been opened by his See also:father, and an acquaintance with See also:Professor See also:James See also:Hall established his See also:interest in the See also:science . Hence while in Paris he studied See also:botany under A . T . See also:Brongniart . In 1851 he settled in practice at Cleveland, but in 1855 he was appointed surgeon and geologist to an exploring party in See also:northern See also:California and See also:Oregon, and in 1857 his reports on the geology, botany and See also:zoology were published . Between then and 1861 he was employed on similar See also:work in the region of the See also:Colorado See also:river under See also:Lieutenant J . C . Ives, and his researches were extended over a large See also:area of previously unknown See also:country in See also:Utah, See also:Arizona and New See also:Mexico, the further results being published in 1876 . During the See also:Civil See also:War he did important work as a member of the U.S . Sanitary See also:Commission, his organizing capacity being specially marked during the operations in the See also:Mississippi Valley .

In 1866 he was appointed professor of geology and palaeontology at the See also:

Columbia School of Mines, New See also:York, where he commenced the formation of a magnificent collection of specimens; in 1869 he was made See also:state geologist of Ohio and director of the (second) See also:Geological Survey there, and in 1884 palaeontologist to the U.S . Geological Survey . Four volumes on the geology of Ohio were published while he was director of the survey, his own reports being confined to the See also:surface geology and to the coal-See also:measures and their fossil plants . He devoted much labour to the study of Triassic, Cretaceous and See also:Tertiary plants, and in particular to those of the See also:Laramie See also:stage . He also carried on researches among the Palaeozoic and Triassic fishes of See also:North See also:America . Among his other publications may be mentioned The Origin and Cldssiffcation of Ore Deposits (188o) . His work throughout was characterized by See also:great care and conscientious study, and it was recognized by his inclusion in most of the learned See also:societies of America and the Old See also:World . He received the See also:Murchison See also:medal of the Geological Society of See also:London in 1888, and was See also:president of the American Association for the See also:Advancement of Science (1867), of the New York See also:Academy of Sciences (1867-1881), and of the See also:International See also:Congress of Geologists (1891) . He died at New Haven, See also:Conn., on the 7th of December 1892 . Memoir (with portrait) by J . J . See also:Stevenson, American Geologist (See also:July 1893) .

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