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4 unusual facts about Henry Darwin Rogers


Henry Darwin Rogers

He died at Shawlands, Glasgow in 1866 seemingly as a result of a combination of overwork, a weak constitution and the effect of the Glasgow climate.

After attending William and Mary, Henry worked at a school in Windsor, Maryland which he administered with his brother William Barton Rogers.

His middle name was given him in honor of Erasmus Darwin, of whose poem “The Botanic Garden” his father was a great admirer.

One of his later essays (1861) was on the parallel roads of Lochaber (Glen Roy), the origin of which he attributed to a vast inundation.


Pierre Jean Édouard Desor

After spending a few years in the north of Europe, especially in Scandinavia, investigating the erratic phenomena peculiar to that region, Desor accompanied Agassiz in 1847 to the United States, found employment in the coast survey, and made with Whitney, Foster, and Rogers a geological survey of the mineral district of Lake Superior.


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