> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 746](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120877) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2529-1) LSID 2529-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5331679) QID Q5331679 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Emmons, Ebenezer (1799-1863), American physician and botanist at Albany, originator and defender of the Taconic system in North America. **Abbreviated name**: *Emmons* \[standard form in IPNI: *Emmons*\] #### Collections New York and N. Carolina Geological Surveys. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 259; Barnhart 1: 508; BM 2: 525-526; CSP 2: 488, 6: 649, 14: 838; DAB 3: 149; ME 1: 182 \[biographies\], 3: 571 \[index\]; Merrill p. 696, 721; PR 2679; Quenstedt p. 128. C.D., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 37: 151. 1864. - Marcou, Science 5: 456-458. 1885 (b. 16 Mai 1800 but err.) (portr.) - Marcou, Amer. Geol. 7: 1-23. 1891 (portr., bibl.) - Youmans, Pioneers of Science in America 347-353. 1896 (portr.) - Nickles, U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 746: 345-346. 1922. - Clarke, James Hall of Albany, Albany 1923 (see index p. 559). - Merrill, The first one hundred years of American geology. New Haven 1924, p. 594-614. - Rodgers, John Torrey 131, 180. 1942. - Rodgers, Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 32, 167-168. 1944. - Carpenter, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 33: 28. 1945. - Schneer, Isis 60(4): 439-450. 1970. - Schneer, DSB 4: 363-365. 1971. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 454. 1973 (letters to Torrey). #### Note Graduated at Williams College, Mass., in 1820, and for fifteen years practiced medicine in Berkshire. In 1836 geologist of the Second District New York State geological survey, 1851-1863 state geologist of North Carolina. ### Publications ##### n.1667. Geological report of the midland counties of North Carolina **Title** *Geological report of the midland counties of North Carolina*. New York (George P. Putnam & Co.), Raleigh (Henry D. Turner) 1856. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Geol. rep. N. Carolina*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1856 (p. iii: 1 Oct 1856), p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-351, \[352, err.\] *pl. 1-8*, liths. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: Andrews ed. 1, p. 29; BM 3: 1448. ##### n.1668. American geology **Title** *American geology*, containing a statement of the principles of the science, with full illustrations of the characteristic American fossils. With an atlas and a geological map of the United States, 3 parts. Albany (Sprague & Co.) 1854-1857. Oct. (in fours) **Abbreviated title**: *Amer. geol.* **Notes** *Vol. 1, part 1*: Albany 1854, reissued Albany 1855 (p. ix: 20 Sep 1855), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-194. *Copy*: MICH; reissue: Teyler. *part 2*: (no t.p.), p. \[1\]-251, *pl. 1-18*, uncol. liths., no date \[1855\]. *Copy*: MICH; reissue: Teyler. *part 6*: 1857 (p. vii: 1 Feb 1857), p. \[i\]-x, \[1\]-152, *pl. 1-10*, uncol. liths. *Copy*: MICH. *Ref*.: Andrews ed. 1, p. 29; BM 2: 526.