. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Extensive Traveler in the Interest of Philosophy and Science. GERMAN naturalist, Humboldt,was born at Berlin, Prussia, in1769, and educated i
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Extensive Traveler in the Interest of Philosophy and Science. GERMAN naturalist, Humboldt,was born at Berlin, Prussia, in1769, and educated in tbe naturalsciences at homo. He studied, in1787, at tbe university of Frank-fort-on-tbe-Odcr, and on his re-t irn applied himself to the1 chnology of manufactures, the( rtek languages, and flowerless1 ints and grasses. A year waspent at the university of Gottin-„Ln, in the study of philologyand natural history. He made ajourney, in 1790, through the lowcountrifs, England and France, butreturned to Germany and studiedbook-keeping and familiarized him-self with commercial 1791 he studied the arts of min-ing, and while engaged in miningpractice gathered information (whichhe published) concerning subterra-nean flowers and the effects uponplants of darkness and unwholesomegases. Obtaining a superior posi-tion as a mining officer, he exploredseveral mining districts in Bavaria,Prussia, etc. Subsequently ht- ex-perimented on the nature of fire-damp in mines, and made a scientificjourney through
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