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WHITNEY, JOSIAH DWIGHT (1819-1896)

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WHITNEY, See also:JOSIAH See also:DWIGHT (1819-1896) , See also:American geologist, was See also:born at See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 23rd of See also:November 1819. He graduated at Yale in 1839, and after two years' See also:work as assistant in the See also:geological survey of New See also:Hampshire, spent some See also:time in See also:Europe in the study of See also:chemistry, See also:mineralogy and See also:geology. Returning to the See also:United States in 1847, he laboured successfully for a time in the See also:copper and See also:iron 1 D. A. See also:Tompkins, See also:Cotton (1901), p. 28.lands of the See also:Lake See also:Superior region; in 1855 he became See also:State chemist and See also:professor in the See also:Iowa University and took See also:part in the geological survey of the state; he subsequently worked in the See also:lead region of the upper See also:Missouri See also:river, in See also:Wisconsin, and in See also:Illinois, See also:publishing many reports, singly or in collaboration with others. From 186o to 1874 he was state geologist of See also:California, and issued a comprehensive See also:series of reports on its See also:topography, geology and See also:botany. In 1869, with See also:William H.. See also:Brewer, he determined the heights of the See also:principal Rocky See also:Mountain summits; and in recognition of his labours See also:Mount Whitney (14,502, in Inyo See also:county, California, the highest See also:peak in the United States) received its name from him. From 1865 until his See also:death he was professor of geology and director of the school of See also:mining and See also:practical geology at Harvard University, residing in See also:Cambridge See also:save when absent on expeditions of See also:research. The records of his investigations are somewhat dispersed; the most homogeneous of his writings are The Metallic See also:Wealth of the United States, described and compared with that of other Countries (1854), a work of importance at the time of its issue, and Contributions to American Geology (vol. i. only, 1880). He died at Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, on the 18th of See also:August 1896.

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