Josiah Whitney
American geologist and professor
Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey. Wikipedia
Born: November 23, 1819, Northampton, MA
Died: August 18, 1896 (age 76 years), New Hampshire
Grandparents: Maj. Abel Whitney and Clarissa Dwight
Great-grandparents: Rev. Aaron Whitney and Josiah Dwight
Parents: Sarah Williston and Josiah Dwight Whitney
Siblings: William Dwight Whitney
Books
The Yosemite book
The Yosemite Guide-book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California
1869
Earthquakes
An Address on the Propriety of Continuing the State Geological Survey of California, Delivered Before the Legislature at Sacramento, Thursday Evening, January 30th, 1868
2011
What Grandmother Says
1993
pt. II. Palæontology: Palæontology of Iowa, by J. Hall
1858
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