. 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. orks ofconsiderable value to scientists. From 1836 to 1845 he cimtinuedhis researches among the Alps, engaged in the study of the glaciersand
. 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. orks ofconsiderable value to scientists. From 1836 to 1845 he cimtinuedhis researches among the Alps, engaged in the study of the glaciersand the geological phenomena that they produce. These researchesand their results were published in 1840 and in 1847, in two separatevolumes, and ewtabUsh the fact that the rocky boulders seen in somany portions of the world, were conveyed to the places where theyare found by the action of ice-rivers, or bodies of moving , coming to America in 1846, further confirmed his glacialtheory by researches in an excursion to Lake Superior. In Bostenihe delivered a series of public lectures, listened to by large audi-ences, giving a general review of the animal kingdom, and anothercourse upon the glaciers and their work. Otlier portions of theeast and south were visited, to compare the animals of the northernand southern latitudes. In 1847 he continued his scientific researchesalong the Atlantic cr)ast with the govenimctit coast tsurvcy; the saiue. year he accepted the professorship of zoology and geology in AbbottLawrences scientific school in Cambridge; in 1848 he made a scien-tific exploration of the Lake Superior region, and about that time hepublished his Principles of Zoology, for use in schools; in the mean-time lecturing on scientific subjects in different portions of the 1850 he investigated the Florida reef, and in 1851 explored theState of New York. In 1852 he accepted a professorship of com-parative anatomy in the medical college of Charleston, S. C., maki
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