Henry Darwin Rogers
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Henry Darwin Rogers
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| Born | 1 August 1808 Philadelphia |
| Died |
26 May 1866 (aged 57) Glasgow |
| Residence | United States, Scotland |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | geology |
| Institutions | Professor of Chemistry & Natural Philosophy, Dickinson College (1829) Surveyed geology of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Professor of Geology, Philadelphia University; Professor of Natural History, Glasgow University (1857–66) |
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Henry Darwin Rogers FRS FRSE (1 August 1808 – 26 May 1866) was an American geologist.
Rogers was born at Philadelphia. His middle name was given him in honour of Erasmus Darwin, of whose poem "The Botanic Garden" his father was a great admirer. In 1813 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Henry was educated in the public schools, and in 1819 they moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where his father was professor of natural philosophy and mathematics in the College of William & Mary from 1819 until 1828, and which Henry attended for a short time. His father provided most of his education. After attending William and Mary, Henry worked at a school in Windsor, Maryland which he administered with his brother William Barton Rogers. It closed in 1828, and he joined his brother teaching at the Maryland Institute.
At the age of 21, he was chosen professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. During the year in which he held the professorship, he edited a monthly scientific magazine, The Messenger of Useful Knowledge, to which his brother contributed a series of short articles on the "Formation of Dew," and in which educational, literary, and political articles and selections from foreign journals were also published. His interest in the ideas of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was not welcome at Dickinson, and he resigned his professorship in 1831, and began working on behalf of the Owenites. On their suggestion, in 1831 or 1832 he went to England, where, with aid afforded him by his brother William, he studied chemistry in the laboratory of Edward Turner, and attended other scientific lectures in London, including those of De la Beche on geology.
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