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He was identified with the early progress of the Natural Science s. He graduated from Harvard in 1799, was tutor in Mathematics there from 1803 to 1805 , was chosen Professor of mathematics and natural Philosophy and lecturer on Chemistry and mineralogy in Bowdoin College — a position which he retained until his death, although many professorships in other colleges and the presidency of his own were offered to him. He gathered a valuable collection of minerals and published a Treatise on ''Mineralogy and Geology'' (1816; third edition, 1856), which earned for him the title "Father of American Mineralogy." |
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