John Strong Newberry

John Strong Newberry (December 22, 1822 – December 7, 1892) was an American physician and professor of geology and paleontology, as well as a surgeon and naturalist on three exploring and surveying expeditions in the western United States. In 1863 the U.S. Congress appointed him one of the original fifty members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Newberry was elected in 1867 to the American Philosophical Society and in 1887 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received in 1888 the Geological Society of London's Murchison Medal. Quotes Among the Hopis Moquis of Northeastern Arizona, where the plains that are cultivated are sandy, the seed-corn is dropped to the bottom of holes twelve to fifteen inches deep, made with a stick. Though dry at the surface, the sand is moist below, having absorbed all the water furnished by the snows of winter, and the cloudless sun warms the soil so that the grains germinate even at that depth. When the growing plant rises above the surface of the ground it immediately shoots out its ears, and the field when the crops mature looks as though it had been inundated and sand deposited around the stems to half their length. The color of the grain is usually blue, and the bread made from it and baked between two flat, smooth stones by the Moquis, though well flavored, looks like blue wrapping-paper. Food and Fiber Plants of the North American Indians D. Appleton & Company 1887 https://books.google.com/books?id=PxwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2 2 (16 pages; reprinted from November 1887 issue of The Popular Science Monthly) After the Carboniferous age the whole region between the Mississippi and the Atlantic was raised above the sea level ocean level, where it has remained with little variation of altitude to the present time. Of this belt of elevated country, which reached from the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains Adirondacks to the Gulf of Mexico Gulf, the most easterly portion was much the older. This was formed by the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge and the Hudson Highlands, with one or more parallel ridges on the east, which have since been depressed. The Allegheny Mountains Alleghanies proper were added toward the close of the Carboniferous age. Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley Volume 14 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey U.S. Government Printing Office 1888 https://books.google.com/books?id=x3gZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 3 (152 pages) Some special difficulties have stood in the way of making collections of the plants of the South Amboy Fire Clay Group Amboy Clays. These clays have come to be a most important element in the resources of the State, and they are the basis of a great industry. The clay beds have been opened at a great number of points, and as the different layers are the products of changing physical conditions, and probably mark the lapse of considerable intervals of time, it is not strange that many differences should be noticeable in the fossil plants of the various beds. The Flora of the Amboy Clays Volume 26 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey. Department of the Interior U.S. Government Printing Office 1895 https://books.google.com/books?id=FPw_c8il-lYC&pg=PA25 25 (260 pages; edited by Arthur Hollick) It is known to all geologists that in the Old World a considerable number of fish remains are reported to have been found in the middle and upper portion of the Upper Silurian system. It is true that the ichthyic character of the peculiar organisms here referred to, those named Pteraspis and Doryaspis Scaphaspis by Huxley and Ray Lankester Lankester, have been doubted by many and denied by some, but the authors mentioned are positive in their statements, and there are none among Comparative anatomy comparative anatomists whose dicta deserve more respect than theirs. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America Volume 16 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey U.S. Government Printing Office 1890 https://books.google.com/books?id=qlv-Mk0_DigC&pg=PA19 19 (228 pages) External links Charles Abiathar White, Biographical Memoir of John Strong Newberry, 1822–1892 http://biographicalmemoirs.org/pdfs/newberry-j-s.pdf National Academy of Sciences 1902 Category:1822 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Explorers from the United States Category:Geologists from the United States Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Paleontologists from the United States Category:Physicians from Cleveland Category:Physicians from Connecticut Category:Science authors from the United States