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	Ian Donnachie: William Maclure: science, Pestalozzianism and reform in Europe and the United States
		William Maclure was a key figure in the American Philosophical Society and later of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which both attracted many overseas scholars and became centres for the exploration of the continent.
		William Maclure thought Pestalozzi’s system was the most rational he had ever seen and was particularly enthused by the emphasis placed by Pestalozzi on the development of the individual and the practical education provided.
		Maclure believed that ‘children under proper management, can feed and clothe themselves by the practice of the best and most useful part of their instruction; and in place of being a burden, they would be a help to all concerned with them’ (quoted in Silber: 311).
	www.infed.org /thinkers/maclure.htm (2399 words)

	History of geology--Maclure
		Maclure, who is known as the "father of American geology," published the first widely available geologic map of the United States in 1809.
		Maclure is known as the "Father of American geology" and the "William Smith of America." These titles are based on his geological map of the United States, the first colored geological map of the country.
		Maclure's map was published first in 1809, accompanied by Observations on the geology of the United States in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/maclure/maclure.htm (1189 words)

	William Maclure -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		William Maclure (1763 - March 23, 1840) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A specialist in geology) geologist.
		Maclure was born at (A port in southwestern Scotland) Ayr in (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts) Scotland.
		After a brief visit to (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York in 1782 he began active life as a partner in a (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London firm of American merchants.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_maclure.htm (454 words)

	MCMASTER, JOHN BACH - LoveToKnow Article on MCMASTER, JOHN BACH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MACLURE, WILLIAM (17631840), American geologist, was born at Ayr in Scotland in 1763.
		MACMAHON, MARIE EDME PATRICE MAURICE DE, duke of Magenta (18o8I 893), French marshal and president of the French republic, was born on the 13th of July 1808 at the chteau of Sully, near Autun.
		In 1861 he represented France at the coronation of William I. of Prussia, and in 1864 he was nominated governorgeneral of Algeria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MC/MCMASTER_JOHN_BACH.htm (1717 words)

	all things William: A List of Firsts
		William of Vercelli (aka William of Monte Vergine) was the founder of the Hermits of Monte Vergine, or Williamites, in 1119.
		William Maclure is known as the "Father of American geology" and the "William Smith of America" because he published the first widely available geologic map of the United States in 1809.
		William Whewell invented the English word "scientist" in 1833; before this time the only terms in use were "natural philosopher" and "man of science." The term "palaetiology" was coined in 1837 by Whewell to refer to those sciences which have as their object the reconstruction of the past based on the evidence of the present.
	allthingswilliam.com /willynilly/firsts.html (8047 words)

	Overview of William Maclure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1803, Maclure was sent to France by the US government to represent the interests of American citizens who suffered losses during the French Revolution.
		Maclure is also well-known as the partner of reformer Robert Owen (1771 - 1858) in his unsuccessful social experiment in New Harmony, Indiana.
		In 1812, Maclure was a founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and later became its president for more than 20 years.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst1489.html (300 words)

	History of the Indiana Geological Survey
		William Maclure, eminent Scottish geologist and partner with Robert Owen in the New Harmony venture.
		Self-trained in geology, Maclure accumulated a fortune in business at an early age and was then able to devote years to his avocations, geology and applied public education, with such success that he has been referred to as the Father of American Geology and the William Smith of America.
		Maclure's maps of 1809, before New Harmony was established, and of 1818, after the Harmonist colony was founded, show surficial rocks in Indiana and Illinois Territory to be "Secondary," a name that would place them stratigraphically somewhere within Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata of modern terminology.
	igs.indiana.edu /survey/history/index.cfm (1455 words)

	SummitPost.org - Mount Maclure Climbing Information
		This peak requires a fairly long approach to any of its routes, but the route from Tuolumne Meadows is probably the easiest of the bunch, at around 13 miles and 3500 feet of elevation gain (most of the gain comes in the last 4-5 miles).
		Maclure (1763-1840) became known as 'the father of American geology' because he produced, in 1809, the first geological map of the United States.
		The BGN in 1932 approved 'Maclure Glacier' (on the north slope of Mount Maclure), and 'Maclure Lake' (at the head of Maclure Creek).
	www.summitpost.org /show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/1631 (779 words)

	THOMAS SAY
		The problem was brought to the attention of William Maclure, who wrote from Mexico in June 1831 to Reuben Haines, contrasting the conditions for the two naturalists in the two locations.
		Maclure wrote that Lesueur had essentially worked for free at the Academy and that the circulation of the Academy's journal was probably less than that of the Disseminator, published in New Harmony.
		Maclure went on to describe Thomas Say as "modest and unassuming, not well calculated for scrambling amongst the intrigue and forward ambition" among the scientists in Philadelphia.
	faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/say.html (784 words)

	Natural History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Maclure, like Peale, wished to use education in the natural sciences to cure society’s ills and to elevate the quality of living for the poor.
		Maclure believed that the dissemination of scientific knowledge would lead to material improvement and eliminate mental degeneration brought on by slavery, poverty, and organized religion.
		Maclure sponsored individual naturalists in addition to supporting the scientific pursuits of the Academy of Natural Sciences.
	www1.umn.edu /scitech/assign/nh/intro_1820s.html (158 words)

	Scottish Trivia, Tour Scotland.
		William Maclure was born in Scotland in 1763 and made his fortune in a London mercantile firm before he devoted his life to science and philanthropy.
		A correspondent of Jefferson’s on scientific matters, Maclure is known as the “father of American geology.”; In 1824, he visited Robert Owen’s cotton mill at New Lanark, Scotland, and the following November, he met Robert Owen in Philadelphia and decided to join his group at New Harmony, Indiana.
		Maclure spent the last years of his life in Mexico and died there in 1840.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /scottish-trivia-358.htm (323 words)

	WILLIAM MACLURE
		Born to wealth in Ayr, Scotland, on October 27, 1763, William Maclure came to the United States in 1778.
		The European Journals of William Maclure, edited, with Notes and Introduction by John S. Doskey, was published in 1988 by the American Philosophical Society.
		William Maclure as Publisher in the New Harmony Reform Tradition, Ian MacPhail and Marjorie Sutton, 167-177.
	faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/maclure.html (785 words)

	William Maclure
		MACLURE, William, geologist, born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1763; died in San Angel, Mexico, 23 March, 1840.
		Maclure continued his efforts, in hope of bringing the school into operation, but without success.
		Maclure contributed numerous papers to the "American Journal of Science," and published "Opinions on Various Subjects," devoted mainly to questions of political economy (2 vols., New Harmony, 1837).
	www.famousamericans.net /williammaclure (677 words)

	Scott County Public Library - A brief history
		The fine collections of Owens, Maclure and others were freely put to the use of the reading public.
		William Maclure was born in Scotland in 1762.
		On July 17, 1855, the "Maclure's Workingmen's Institute" was organized at Lexington.
	www.scottcounty.org /arts/history.html (491 words)

	Thomas Say - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the great grandson of John Bartram, and the great-nephew of William Bartram, whom Say frequently visited as a boy with butterfly and beetle specimens.
		In 1818 Say accompanied his friend William Maclure (1763-1840), president of the ANSP (1817-1840) and father of American geology, Gerhard Troost, a geologist, and other members of the Academy on a geological expedition to the off-shore islands of Georgia and Florida, then a Spanish colony.
		She was an artist and illustrator of specimens (such as in the book 'American Conchology') who later became the first female member of the Academy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Say (635 words)

	Indiana State Archives - Databases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Maclure opened his school to orphans, thus freeing the venture from any dependence on the population of New Harmony.
		Maclure's educational views were published by his own press as well as the scientific achievements of his colleagues through the Society for Mutual Instruction.
		William Owen (1802-1842), second son of Robert Owen, was an author, editor of the New Harmony Gazette, founder of the New Harmony Thespian Society, and manager of the Owen community during his father's absences.
	www.state.in.us /icpr/archives/databases/posey/posey6.html (663 words)

	CDPL: The History of Libraries in Montgomery County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		William Maclure, born in Ayr, Scotland in 1763, made a great fortune as a partner in an English mercantile firm, Miller, Hart and Company.
		William Maclure and Robert Owen fell out over utopian policy disagreements, and Maclure, who had been an intellectual and financial force in the project, pulled out.
		Maclure died in 1840, and in the mid 1850s a distribution of funds began, eventually resulting in 144 libraries in 89 Indiana counties, including the Mechanic's Library in Crawfordsville, and the Manual Labor Library in Waveland.
	www.cdpl.lib.in.us /centennial/libhistory.html (7150 words)

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		Charles Alexandre Lesueur, 1778-1846, artist and naturalist, participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817).
		Maclure was in search of a field naturalist and travelling companion on his geological tour of the West Indies and the United States.
		Horner, William E. "A case of unusual arrangement in the ascending cava and in the external jugular veins of the human subject." JANSP 1 (1818):401-405, pl. 16.
	www.acnatsci.org /~spamer/lesueur938.xml (1346 words)

	NEW HARMONY WORKINGMEN'S INSTITUTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Visitors to the New Harmony Workingmen's Institute often stand before Thomas James Northcote's magnificent portrait of William Maclure and marvel at the founder of the Institute.
		In the early years, meetings of the Institute were held in a wing of one of Maclure's buildings called "the hall," formerly a Harmonist church.
		Maclure provided for many other libraries, of which only the New Harmony Workingmen's Institute is still in operation.
	www.communalstudies.info /nhscientists/wmi.html (289 words)

	A Doctor of the Old School, Complete, by Ian Maclaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MacLure got nothing but the secret affection of the Glen, which knew that none had ever done one-tenth as much for it as this ungainly, twisted, battered figure, and I have seen a Drumtochty face soften at the sight of MacLure limping to his horse.
		MacLure was in the saddle, and as he gave his judgment, he laid his hand on Tammas’s shoulder with one of the rare caresses that pass between men.
		MacLure, on his coming, would say nothing, either weal or woe, till he had examined Saunders. Suddenly his face turned into iron before their eyes, and he looked like one encountering a merciless foe. For there was a feud between MacLure and a certain mighty power which had lasted for forty years in Drumtochty.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/9320.htm (11701 words)

	Chronology of Science in the United States 1840-1849
		Henry Darwin Rogers (1808-1866) and William Barton Rogers (1804-1882) presented the first significant American work on geological theory, published as "On the Physical Structure of the Appalachian Chain, as Exemplifying the Laws Which Have Regulated the Elevation of Great Mountain Chains Generally," Reports of the Meetings of Association of American Geologists and Naturalists (1843): 474-531.
		John William Draper (1811-1882) produced what apparently was the first photograph (daguerreotype) of a diffraction spectrum.
		William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) at the Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrated the general anaesthetic use of sulphuric ether; John Collins Warren (1778-1856) performed the surgical operation.
	home.earthlink.net /~claelliott/chron1840.htm (2857 words)

	B & L Rootenberg Rare Books: Featured Catalogue: Summer 2002 -- L-N (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		By 1809, Maclure had commenced the single handed Herculean task of exploring the geology of the United States.
		This work, and in particular the map, which according to Howes is the first geological map of the United States, was immediately embraced as an important and outstanding work in the field.
		Maclure (1763 -840), known as the "Father of American Geology," was a pioneer in his field.
	www.rootenbergbooks.com /lists2002d.htm (2010 words)

	Bartram's Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		While the botanical discoveries and horticultural introductions of John Bartram and his son William Bartram are now generally recognized, the continuing role of the Bartram family in plant introduction in the early 19th century has been all but forgotten.
		William Maclure, the peripatetic President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia wrote Poinsett often, and paid several visits to Mexico while Poinsett was minister.
		William Maclure had returned briefly to Philadelphia in the fall of 1828, and he brought yet more Mexican seeds and plants with him.
	www.bartramsgarden.org /happenings/poinsettia_lecture.html (2619 words)

	WILLIAM MACLURE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM MACLURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 18f 7 Maclure brought before the same society a revised edition of his map, and his great geological memoir was issued separately, with some additional matter, under the title Observations on the Geology of the United States of America.
		See S. Morton, Memoir of William Maclure, Amer.
		To properly cite this WILLIAM MACLURE article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACLURE_WILLIAM.htm (345 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1966, an industrious group of women from both Glenwood and Shoemaker Cooperatives founded and christened the house Maclure after William Maclure, cartographer, scientist, and philanthropist.
		The women of Maclure have diverse backgrounds and put their interests toward the common goals of the house.
		Maclure is located on corner of Wiggins Street and Chauncey Avenue about a five minute walk from the heart of campus.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~maclure/history.html (258 words)

	A Doctor of the Old School, Part 4, by Ian Maclaren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Drumtochty had a vivid recollection of the winter when Dr. MacLure was laid up for two months with a broken leg, and the Glen was dependent on the dubious ministrations of the Kildrummie doctor. Mrs.
		MacLure, and remarked in the kirkyard all summer that he was failing.
		MacLure had been slowly taking in the situation, and at last he unburdened himself one night to Jamie.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/9318.htm (3937 words)

	Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (W) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		He helped place William Henry Seward in the governership from 1838-1842, and afterwards, accompanied Seward into the Republican party, and supported the moderate anti-slavery man for president.
		William Maclure, who clearly saw the failure of New Harmony, was "astonished that everything proceeded so smoothly.
		She was accompanied by William Phiquepal D'Arusmont, an unfortunate traveling companion.
	www.jmisc.net /BIOG-W.htm (5410 words)

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