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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2011-02-26
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Public domain in the USA.

1793–1864
A pioneering American geologist, educator, and Congregational minister, he helped bring the young sciences of geology and paleontology to a wider public in the 1800s. He is especially remembered for his work on fossil footprints and for shaping scientific life at Amherst College.
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