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HAYDEN, FERDINAND VANDEVEER (18291887) , American geologist, was born at Westfield, Massachusetts, on the 7th of September 1829. He graduated from Oberlin College in 185o and from the Albany Medical College in 1853, where he attracted the notice of Professor James Hall
York
series of investigations of the109 Western Territories, one result of which was his Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in 18597860 (1869). During the Civil War he was actively employed as an army surgeon. In 1867 he was appointed geologist-in-charge of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and from his twelve years of labour there resulted a most valuable series of volumes in all branches of natural history and economic science; and he issued in 1877 his Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado. Upon the reorganization and establishment
His other publications were: Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery (187o); The Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by chromolithographic reproductions of water-colour sketches by Thomas Moran (1876) ; The Great West : its Attractions and Resources (188o). With F. B. Meek, he wrote (Smithsonian Institution Contributions, v. 14. Art. 4) " Palaeontology of the Upper Missouri, Pt. 1, Invertebrate." His valuable notes on Indian dialects are in The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1862). in The American Journal of Science (1862) and in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1869). With A. R. C. Selwyn he wrote North America (1883) for Stanford's Compendium.End of Article: HAYDEN, FERDINAND VANDEVEER (18291887) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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