NEWBERRY, JOHN STRONG ( 1822-92). An American geologist, born in Windsor, Conn. De spent most of his early life in the Western Re serve of Ohio, and received his college education at the Western Reserve at lhffison. Ohio, from which he graduated in 1846. and then entered the Cleveland Medical School, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1848. Going to Europe, he spent two years in Paris in post graduate work in medicine and paleontology. On his return to the United States, in 1851. he took up the practice of medicine in Cleveland, but in 1855 he joined an exploring expedition under Lieutenant Williamson, sent out by the War Department to examine the country between San Francisco and the Columbia River. Ilis geological investigations were published as a separate volume of the Reports of Explorations and to Ascertain the .1/ogt Practical and Economic Route for a Railroad front the Missis sippi Rirer to the Pacific Coast, Made in 1855-56 (Washington, 1857). in 1857-58 he acted as geologist to an expedition headed by Lieutenant Ives. sent out to explore the Colorado River. .Newberry's paper relating to the geology, physi ography. and Indian tribes, undoubtedly forms the most valuable and interesting part of the Report on the Colorado Riser of thr West, Ex plored in 1857.58 (Washington, 18611. The next year Newberry again went into the field, this time as naturalist of an expedition under Cap tain Macombe, which explored southwestern Colo rado and adjacent, parts of litah, Arizona, and Ness' Mexico. 'flee results of this appeared in 1876 under the title of Reports)of the Exploring Expedition from Santa to the ,hotel ion of the Grande and Green Rivers (Washington, 1876.) During the Civil War he performed the duties of seerctary to the Sanitary Commission for the -Mississippi Valley, and after the administration of this work he became attached to the nian Institution, at the same time holding :1 fessorship in the Columbian UniNersity at AVash ington. to which lie had been ...allot in 1857. In
Ism; lie was offered the chair of geology and paleontology in the School of Alines. Columbia allege. which he accepted. and held for twenty tour ?eals. In 1809, when the Ohio Geological sur‘ey was established lie was made director and personally did much of the work described in sev eral of the reports. He did much work for the Illinois Geological Survey. and also described the extensive collections of fossil plants gathered by survey of the West. In 1867 he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Sebum% and in the same year he was chosen president of the New York Academy of Sciences. which position he held for twent?•four years. lle was also president of the Torrey Botanical Club from 1880 to 1890, and assisted in the organization of the Geological of America at Cleveland in• 1885, and served as a of the commission to organ ize an internal geological Congress. of whieh be subsequently became president. During, the latter part of his life lie resided in New haven, Conn.
In addition to the works above mentioned. Dr. Newberry also wrote the following: The Rock oils of Ohio lion It'esourrcs of the Unittfl Sighs (1874) : The Structure and lleht tions of Dinichthys (18751: Report on the Fossil Co/trete./ on the Illinois Geofoniot/ Sur r...a 118801 ; Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the lioeks of Neu• Jersey and the Con necticut (1888): Paleozoic Pisht of Vorth .Interica (1889) ; and Later Extinct floras ( 1898).