NEWBERRY, JOHN STIMNO. LL.D. ; b. Conn., 1822. In 1824 his father emi grated with his family to Ohio. and founded the town of Cuyahoga Falls. Newberry graduated from Western Reserve college in 1846. and from the Cleveland medical college in 1848. After two years of study and travel abroad he settled down to the practice of medicine in Cleveland, but his growing fondness for natural science led him to accept the appointment of assistant surgeon and geologist on lieut. Williamson's sur vey of northern California and Oregon in 1855`. Newben•'s researches were published in a separate quarto volume. as well as in the Pacific railroad reports. In 1857—SS he accom panied lieut. J. C. Ives's expedition to the Colorado river, taking out an iron steamer in sections and navigating that stream for 500 miles. Newber•y's portion of the report was acknowledged by his commander to constitute "the most interesting material gathered by the expellition." He assisted, in 1850, capt. Macomb's exploration of the upper Colorado and San Juan rivers, opening up an interesting region of immense mineral resources, and published a report on it. During the rebellion his admin,s
trativc capacity was demonstrated by his superintendence, as secretary, of the affairs of the sanitary commission throughout the Mississippi valley In 1866 he was appointed to, and still continues to bold, the professorship of geology and paleontology in the school of mines of Columbia college. Ile has been state geologist of Ohio since 1869, and completed an exhaustive geological survey of the state within five years, the final reports of which, now in process of publication, will make eight volumes, besides a map. Prof. Xewberry has made many contributions to the literature of fossil fishes and plants, and geology in general. He is a member of numerous American and European scientific societies, and is now president of the New York academy of sciences.