By Patsy Gerstner
Henry Darwin Rogers was once one of many first expert geologists within the United States. He directed of the earliest kingdom geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His significant curiosity was once Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers observed as nice folds of sedimentary rock. He belived that an interpretation of those folds might result in an figuring out of the dynamic procedures that had formed the earth. From Rogers' efforts to clarify those Pennsylvania folds got here the 1st uniquely American thought of mountain elevation, a thought that Rogers for my part thought of his most vital achievement.
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Additional publicity for Rogers's view, however, made him a necessary focus of the trustees' attention. First, The Chronicle of the Times and Disseminator of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge in Baltimore reprinted his essay. The Chronicle was published by Julius Ducatel, professor of chemistry, and George H. Calvert, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Maryland. Ducatel, who later headed the first geological survey of Maryland, had taught at the Maryland Institute, where Henry may have met him.
39 One of Henry's closest friends in Baltimore was Michael Keyser, whose father owned a china warehouse where William had worked for a while, and he helped Henry through this period. . "40 Rogers's future life would often be interrupted by such periods of despondency, which usually followed rejection, illness, or some change in his life. Before the year ended, things began to look up for Rogers. The institute decided to continue the school and the lectures, and Henry was joined there by his brother James.
Through his friends, he was able to obtain a partial list of the trustees of Dickinson in order to make contacts in Henry's behalf. 1 Rogers's brother, James, spoke to Dr. James Henry Miller, his friend and colleague from the Washington Medical College in Baltimore and an 1808 graduate of Dickinson, in the hope that Miller could exert some influence at Dickinson on Henry's behalf. " 2 Furthermore, Miller felt that there was little he could do to help Henry's quest because he had left the college after an angry confrontation with the trustees.