Amos Eaton1897 - 82 pages |
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Abigail Albany Albert Hopkins Amos Eaton amusements apparatus appointed assistant Berkshire County board of trustees born botanists Botany boulder Bradley Burhans by-laws Cady Eaton called Canal Catskill Chatham chemistry church commence Conn courses of lectures Curtiss Daniel Cady Eaton daughter death Dedham died Ebenezer Emmons Geology give glaciers graduated Gray Haven instruction interest John John Eaton Jonathan Joseph White Lanesborough last Wednesday limestone Linnæus lived Lonicera Lydia married Mass ment miles Mineralogy Natural History Newton parish Pittsfield plant practical preparation branch president Prof Professor Amos Eaton Professor Dewey Professor Eaton published pupils rector Rensselaer Institute Rensselaer School rocks SAMUEL BLATCHFORD says scientific settled SIMEON DE WITT sons species specimens Stephen Van Rensselaer survey teacher Thomas tion Torrey town of Charlemont Troy villosum weeks wife Williams College Williamstown winter term Xylosteum Yale Yale College York
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Page 241 - My principal object is to qualify teachers for instructing the sons and daughters of farmers and mechanics, by lectures or otherwise, in the application of experimental chemistry, philosophy and natural history to agriculture, domestic economy, the arts and manufactures.
Page 239 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 257 - One year is sufficient for obtaining the Rensselaer degree of Bachelor of Natural Science, or of Civil Engineer, for a candidate who is well prepared to enter. Graduates of Colleges may succeed by close application during the 24 weeks in the Summer term. Candidates...
Page 241 - ... domestic economy, the arts and manufactures. From the trials which have been made by persons in my employment at Utica, Whitesborough, Rome, Auburn and Geneva during the last summer, I am inclined to believe that competent instructors may be produced in the school at Troy, who will be highly useful to the community in the diffusion of a very useful kind of knowledge, with its application to the business of living.
Page 209 - But the drudgery of climbing cliffs and descending into fissures and caverns and of traversing in all directions our most rugged mountainous districts to ascertain the distinctive characters, number, and order of our strata has devolved on me.
Page 200 - The science of Botany is indebted to you for its first introduction into the interior of the Northern States : and I am indebted to you for a passport into the scientific world." To Professor Dewey he was warmly attached, and through life regarded him as a successful fellow-laborer ; and his friendship and co-operation were warmly reciprocated. From Williamstown he went first to Northampton, where Governor Strong, the Hon. EH Mills, and others, patronized and encouraged him. He gave popular scientific...
Page 239 - ... thousand dollars in value, but the clear annual income of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars...
Page 256 - Department are instructed as follows: Three weeks, wholly practical Botany, with specimens. Four weeks, Zoology, including organic remains; and Physiology, including the elements of Organic Chemistry. Three and a half weeks, Geology and Mineralogy, with specimens. Three weeks, traveling between Connecticut River and Schoharie Kill, for making collections to be preserved by each student, and exhibited at examinations; also for improving in the knowledge of Natural History and Mathematical Arts. Ten...
Page 253 - Rensselaer solely for the purpose of affording an opportunity to the farmer, the mechanic, the clergyman, the lawyer, the physician, the merchant, and in short, to the man of business or of leisure, of any calling whatever, to become practically scientific.
Page 213 - This publication marked an era in the progress of geology in this country. It is, in some respects inaccurate, but it must be remembered that its talented and indefatigable author was without a guide in exploring the older formations, and that he described rocks which no geologist had, at that time, attempted to classify. Rocks were then classified chiefly by their mineralogical characters, and the aid which the science has since learned to derive from fossils in determining the chronology and classification...