Peter Lesley

J. Peter Lesley (also: JP Lesley and Peter Lesley, Jr., born September 17, 1819 in Philadelphia, † June 1, 1903 ) was an American geologist.

Life

Peter Lesley studied theology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After graduating in 1838 he spent three years as an assistant to Henry Darwin Rogers ( 1808-1866 ) at the first geological survey of Pennsylvania. In 1844 he graduated from the Theological Seminary in Princeton (New Jersey ) from, 1842-44 resulted from large journeys on foot in Germany, studied in Halle ( Saale), put theology aside and settled in 1850 in his native city as a geologist down. Since that time, he wrote his name JP Lesley, the J stood for junior.

In 1863 he visited Europe, the Bessemer steel works in Sheffield, 1867 was active as American Commissioner at the Paris World's Fair, then traveled to Egypt and was in 1873 appointed professor of geology and mining engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, was appointed in 1874 to the official geologist of the State of Pennsylvania. In 1884 he became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887-1898 Vice - President of the American Philosophical Society.

Works

  • Manual of coal and its topography: illustrated by original drawings, chiefly of facts in the geology of the Appalachian region of the United States of North America (1856 )
  • Guide to the ironworks of the United States (1858 )
  • The iron manufacturer 's guide to the furnaces, forges and rolling mills of the United States (1859 )
  • Report on the Embreeville Iron Property, East Tennessee ( 1873)
  • A map and profile of a line of levels along Slippery Rock Creek ( 1875)
  • Note on the comparative geology of North -Eastern Ohio and North - Western Pennsylvania, and Western New York ( 1875)
  • Historical Sketch of Geological Explorations in Pennsylvania ( 1876)
  • Man's origin and destiny: sketched from the platform of the sciences, in a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell institute, in Boston, in the winter of 1865-6 (1868, 2nd edition 1881)
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