Charles Conrad Abbott

See also: Abbott

Charles Conrad Abbott is a archeologist and a American Naturaliste , born the June 4th 1843 with Trenton in the New Jersey and dead the July 27th 1919 with Bristol (Pennsylvania).

He is the son of Timothy and Susan Conrad Abbott. He is the grandson of Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831), which teaches mineralogy and botany with the Université of Pennsylvania. He very early treats a great passion for nature, particularly the Oiseau X and the Mammifère S. He begins his studies in Trenton Academy then studies the Médecine with the Université of Pennsylvania, obtaining a title of doctor in 1865. Abbott serves as surgeon in the federate Armée during the American Civil War. In 1867, it Marie with Julia Olden, union of which will be born three children. From 1876 to 1889, he is assistant with the Muséum Peabody of archeology and ethnology of the Université Harvard (Cambridge). Then, of 1889 to 1893 conservative of archeology of the natural history museum of the university of Pennsylvania.

He works in particular on the colonization of the America. He constitutes an archaeological collection of 20.000 specimens, preserved today at Muséum Peabody. In its book, Primitive Industry , of 1881, it shows a preglacial presence human in the valley of Delaware, which constitutes an signification advance of archaeological knowledge North-American. He contributes to scientific magazines like American Naturalist , Science , Nature , Science-News and Popular Science Monhtly . He is also the author of several work on the Reptile S and the vertebrate ones of the New Jersey.

List partial of the publications

1881 : Primitive industry: however, Illustrations off the handiwork, in stone, bone and clay, off the native races off the northern Atlantic seaboard off America (Packsaddlled G.A., Salem) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1884 : has Naturalist' S Rambles butt Home (D. Appleton and Company, New York) - exemplary numerical on American Librairies.
1884 : Rambles off has Naturalist
1886: Upland and Meadow
1887 : Waste-Land Wanderings (To grip & brothers, New York) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1889 : Days out off doors (D. Appleton and company, New York) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1890 : Outings At odd times (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on Canadian Bookstores.
1894 : Travels in has tree-signal (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1895 : The birds butt custom (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia: xi + 288 p. + 24 pl.) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1895 : has colonial wooing (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1896 : Bird-Land echoes (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1896 : Notes off the night, and other outdoor sketches (F. Warne, London) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1898 : with the graphic designer Edward Stratton Holloway (1859-1939), The freedom off the fields (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1899 : Clear ski and cloudy (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1890 : Outings At Odd Times
1892: Recent rambles; however, In touch with natural (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores (version of 1899).
1899 : Clear Ski and Cloudy (J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia: 316 p.).
1900 : In Nature' S Realm
1906: Rambles off year Idler
1907 - 1909: Archœologia Nova Cœsarea (N.J., MacCrelish & Quigley, Trenton) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.
1912 : Ten years' diggings in Lenápè Land, 1901-1911 (N.J., MacCrelish & Quigley, Trenton) - exemplary numerical on American Bookstores.

Sources

Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of December 19th, 2006).
Keir B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco & Lorne F. Hammond (to dir.) (1997). Biographical dictionary off American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists . Greenwood Close (Westport): xix + 937 p.

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