Synopses & Reviews
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South offers nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States. Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between 1796 and the 1850s. Each essay includes fascinating biographic sketches of the author, a bibliography, and an index.
Review
The nine historical essays in this little volume edited by James X. Corgan have done much to rectify this lacuna [in knowledge about early geologists in the United States] by mapping out the history of geological inquiry in the southeast, as well as defining areas of fruitful scholarship and terrae incognitae.
and#151;Florida Historical Quarterly
Review
[The Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South] will be a useful book for those specially interested in the history of the Antebellum South.
and#151;Geological Journal
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Andrew Ellicott's geological observations in the Mississippi Valley and Florida in 1796-1800 / George W. White -- South Carolina state geological surveys of the nineteenth century / Anne Millbrooke -- Early American geological surveys and Gerard Troost's field assistants, 1831-1836 / James X. Corgan -- Mineral fertilizers in Southern agriculture / Richard C. Sheridan -- William Barton Rogers and the Virginia Geological Survey, 1835-1842 / Michele L. Aldrich and Alan E. Leviton -- Southern influences on the career of Joseph Nicollet / Martha Coleman Bray -- Antebellum geological surveys in Kentucky and their contribution to the Shaler surveys of the 1870s / Ivan L. Zabilka -- Charles Lyell's observations on southeastern geology / Daniel D. Arden -- The second geological career of Ebenezer Emmons / Markes E. Johnson.