Articles liés à Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney
Présentation de l'éditeur
The original idea of this biography is, in part, Professor Whitney sown. Some time before his death, he arranged with Professor William H. Brewer of Yale University, who had been his chief assistant on the California Geological Survey, that Professor Brewer should at some future time write the history of their work on the Pacific coast. Of this task Professor Brewer had made a considerable beginning, and his ample notes are the basis of so much of the present work as deals with the period between i860 and 1874. On this portion of my work I have, besides, been greatly aided by Mr. Charles F. Hoffmann, Chief Topographer of the California Survey, and by the late Robert E. C. Stearns of Los A ngeles. Dr. Stearns had been, since the early days of the state, among the most eminent men of science in California; to him I owe the advantage of a competent opinion of surveyors and survey from the outside. The book in its present form is the project of Professor Whitney simmediate family, and especially of his only surviving sister. She in particular has collected most of the materials.
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