American Geological Investigations and the French, 1750-1850

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
North American ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Stratigraphic Correlation ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
The North ◽  
Geological Science ◽  
Geological Work

By the middle of the nineteenth century, leaders of the French geological community were taking a keen interest in North American geological phenomena and investigations. Most of this French attention to American geology developed during the first half of the nineteenth century. French geological preoccupations in America during that period tended to focus especially on issues of stratigraphic correlation and paleontology, with discernible concern also for the North American glacial (drift) phenomena, mineral ores, and meteorite observations. The growth of French regard for American geologists and for America as a geological resource, up to 1850, displays features of international cooperation and communication especially plain in such a location-specific science. Historical development of communal scientific activity is seen in travel accounts, and in exchanges of publications and specimens. The Société Géologique de France, founded in 1830, quickly became an important vehicle for commerce in geological knowledge between America and France. French respect for American geological work in the first part of the nineteenth century illustrates the comparatively early maturity of American geological science.

The Kansas-Sudan Missionary Movement in the Y.M.C.A., 1889–1891

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-322
Author(s):  
C. Howard Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The North ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Churches

Among the significantly great historical achievements of the American Young Men's Christian Associations has been the planting of Associations in foreign countries. Paralleling the notable missionary outburst of the late nineteenth century among the North American churches, this distinctive program of the YMCA was inaugurated in the last years of the 1880's with the sending of Association secretaries to Japan and to India.1 Nourished in the student Y.M.C.A.'s and particularly evangelized at the pioneer student conferences held under the auspices of Dwight L. Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts, beginning in 1886,2 the missionary fervor aroused significant interest in many Associations. By 1916 there were 157 North American secretaries in 55 foreign countries, 140 of them in Asia.

A Crisis of Authority: Early Nineteenth-Century British Thought

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
R. K. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
The North ◽  
Good Feeling

This talk represents a crisis of principle. I have long held that a presidential address to a learned society should not belabor that society with laments or summonses, nor should it ask whither the discipline; rather, it should be a serious scholarly or interpretive effort. But it is an equally compelling principle with me that an after-dinner talk should suit the mood of relaxed good feeling that is likely to characterize the occasion. To answer both requirements is no easy task. In defining a genre new to the North American Conference on British Studies, my two predecessors have admirably fulfilled my criteria, combining the serious scholarship one would expect from their distinguished careers with the precise lightness of touch called for on such an occasion.I will not, I fear, follow their example in either respect. The grand, refractory subject I have chosen has interested me for many years, but I have not earlier addressed it in either research or writing: it has been rather like the unheard theme that Elgar said was present in hisEnigma Variations. In now making the theme explicit, as Elgar wisely never did, I shall begin by calling attention to some concerns and perceptions among the English Unitarians over a hundred years, concerns and perceptions that I think reflect a crisis of authority. I shall then suggest ways in which that same analysis might be applied to larger, more important and familiar, segments of nineteenth-century intellectual life.

A radiometric age for the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary based upon K–Ar, Rb–Sr, and U–Pb ages of bentonites from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1088-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Baadsgaard ◽  
J. F. Lerbekmo ◽  
I. McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
North American ◽  
Red Deer ◽  
Statistical Error ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Stratigraphic Correlation ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
The North ◽  
Iridium Anomaly

Bentonites associated with coal seams at the North American Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary in the Red Deer Valley of Alberta, in the Frenchman Valley of Saskatchewan, and near Hell Creek, Montana, were dated by the K–Ar, Rb–Sr, and U–Pb methods. Based upon palynological stratigraphic correlation and the presence of a sharp iridium anomaly, the three sampled bentonite horizons all occur less than 1 m above the established K–T boundary. There is evidence of possible systematic errors giving dating results outside nominal statistical error values. Despite possible constant errors, the weighted mean of nine average dates is calculated as 64.3 ± 1.2 Ma (2σ standard deviation). An unweighted averaging produces a grand mean age of 64.4 ± 1.2 Ma.

scholarly journals La emigración irlandesa decimonónica tras la gran hambruna, parte intrínseca del carácter irlandés

2020 ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Ester Díaz Morillo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The North ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
Irish People

Resumen: A lo largo de la historia han tenido lugar episodios de grandes crisis que transformarían irremediablemente la vida de millones de personas. Uno de estos acontecimientos fue la gran hambruna producida en Irlanda entre 1845 y 1851, uno de los eventos más trágicos de nuestra historia contemporánea que dejaría profundas huellas en su población. Uno de sus efectos más graves fue la oleada migratoria sin precedentes que llevó a numerosos irlandeses especialmente hasta las costas norteamericanas. Este artículo pretende, por tanto, estudiar la migración irlandesa producida por la gran hambruna y las características especiales que mostró y que la hizo distinguirse del resto de olas migratorias europeas decimonónicas. La «nueva Irlanda» que se conformaría en lugares como Estados Unidos nunca perdería su vínculo con la isla y dejaría un legado imborrable en ciudades como Nueva York y Chicago.Abstract: Throughout history there have been episodes of major crisis which would inexorably transform the lives of millions. One of such events was the Great Famine that took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1851, which was one of the most tragic events in our contemporary history and which would leave important marks on its population. The great unprecedented migration wave which led countless Irish people, especially towards the North American coasts, was one of its gravest effects. The aim of this article, therefore, is to explore the Irish migration induced by this Great Famine and the special characteristics that it showed and that made it distinguishable from the rest of the migration waves from nineteenth-century Europe. The “new Ireland” which developed in places such as the United States would never lose its bond with the island and would leave an indelible legacy in cities like New York and Chicago.

scholarly journals Um Breve Histórico de Conceitos Fundamentais da Estratigrafia Moderna: Sequências Deposicionais e seus Fatores Controladores

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HOLZ
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Petroleum Geology ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
American School ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
The North ◽  
Geological Science ◽  
Eustatic Controls ◽  
In The Beginning

Stratigraphy, fundamental to geological science, has been subjected to deep epistemological changes during the last two decades, changes that are generally seen as being a result of the North American school of stratigraphy, specially concerning research groups linked to petroleum geology. However, the fundamentals of modern stratigraphy, such as the concept of depositional sequence and the discussion on its tectonic and eustatic controls, were already discussed and applied in the beginning of the twenthieth century and earlier, and insofar are not product of research of our times, but result of some ideas as old as the ideas of Lyell and Darwin. The present paper presents a brief historical review of stratigraphy’s history during the last hundred and fifty years and discusses the historical roots of fundamental concepts of modern stratigraphy.

scholarly journals Warehouses and Warehouse Districts in Mid-American Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard K. Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
American City ◽  
North American City ◽  
The North ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Railroad Station

In the late nineteenth century, the construction of warehouse districts became an important part of the building process in the North American city. These warehouse districts were the centres of activity for the wholesalers who were the key agents for the expansion of mercantile capitalism. The warehouses themselves were often structures of unusual architectural distinction. With the railroad station, the warehouse was ordinarily the true civic monument of the North American city. This article studies the process by which the wholesale district was formed.

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