. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE OF 1840-1849. 393 Sketch of Zadock Thompson. that when at one time interrupted by his clerk with an inquiry as to the prediction that should be made in the forthcoming issue for the weather for July, he replied somewhat testily. "Say 'Snow about this time.'" So it stood in the printed almanacs, as issued from the press, and, to the aston- ishment of all, including both printer and author, snow did fall in V
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE OF 1840-1849. 393 Sketch of Zadock Thompson. that when at one time interrupted by his clerk with an inquiry as to the prediction that should be made in the forthcoming issue for the weather for July, he replied somewhat testily. "Say 'Snow about this time.'" So it stood in the printed almanacs, as issued from the press, and, to the aston- ishment of all, including both printer and author, snow did fall in Vermont that year in the month of July. The industry of the man was remarkable. He graduated from the University of Vermont at the age of 27. He published an arithme- tic, a geography and map of Canada for use in the common schools; became in 1832 editor of the Green Mountain Repository; wrote a history of Vermont, which appeared the same 3rear; studied theol- og}', and took deacon's orders in the Protes- tant Episcopal Church in 1836. He preached for a time and returned once more to his book writing, first publishing in three vol- umes a Natural,Civil, and Statistical History of Vermont; then a text-book on the Geol- ogy and Geography of Vermont; finally becoming an assistant to Professor Adams on the State survey in 1845, when his geo- logical work really began. ?"Tall, angular, of a very quiet and sedate. yet very pleasant, manner, a man of most amiable and sweet temper, loved by all who knew him, and respected for his sound sense and accurate judgment.'1 Such is the picture given us of him, who certainly was one of the most remarkable men of his times although his name may not stand the highest in the annals of geology. Under the caption of " Description of a singular case of dispersion of blocks of stone connected with the drift in Berkshire County, Massachusetts," Dr. Edward Hitchcock described in the American Hitchcock's Journal of Science for 1815 a remark
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