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Synopsis
Samuel Kneeland (1821-1888) was an American author. He graduated from Harvard with an AB in 1840 and AM and MD in 1843. He was associated with a group of young Boston physicians trying to reform the medical profession. In 1862, he joined the Union army as a surgeon and was in charge of hospitals in New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama until 1866. Kneeland was a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1865 and served as professor of zoology and physiology. He contributed over a thousand articles to Appleton's American Cyclopaedia and published several medical papers. His works include: The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California (1871), An American in Iceland (1876) and Volcanoes and Earthquakes (1888).