> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 548](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333687) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9533-1) LSID 9533-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263541) QID Q263541 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate (1841-1906), American geologist; student of L. Agassiz; D.Sc. Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge 1865; instructor in zoology and geology ib. 1868-1872; professor of paleontology Harvard 1869-1888; professor of geology ib. 1888-1906; director of the second Kentucky Geological Survey 1873-1879; geologist U.S. Geol. Survey 1886-1900. **Abbreviated name**: *Shaler* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shaler*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 264 (b. 21 Feb 1841, d. 10 Apr 1906); BM 4: 1908; DSB 12: 343-344; Ewan ed. 2: 199; ME 2: 511, 517, 3: 304, 305; Merrill p. 478, 565, 711, 730; Quenstedt p. 396; Rehder 5: 796; Tucker 1: 646. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 220: 526-529. 1964 (bibl.); Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 9: 315. 1899; Nature 74: 226-227. 1906 (d.); New York Times 11 Apr 1906 (obit. not.); Science ser. 2. 23: 599, 869-872. 1906 (d.; obit.); Who's who Amer. 1-4, 1899-1907; Who was who Amer. 1: 1108. 1968. - Bacon, H.P., J. Geogr. 54(7): 349-353. 1955 (Fireworks in the classroom: N.S.S. as a teacher). - Berg, W.L., Nathaniel Southgate Shaler... unpubl. diss., Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor 1957. - Brown, J.H., Lamb's biogr. dict. U.S. 7: 34. 1903. - Brown, R.W., Harvard Yard in the golden age, New York 1948, p. 105-118. - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men Sci. ed. 1: 287. 1906. - Davis, W.M., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 4. 21: 408, 480-481. 1906 (obit.). - Dexter, R.W., Sci. Mon. 79(1): 45-51. 1954 (the first expedition of Hyatt, Shaler and Verrill). - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. sci. 233. 1979. - G.P.M. & E.R.D., Dict. Amer. biogr. 17: 17-19. 1935. - Hobbs, W.H., Trans. Wisc. Acad. Sci. 15: 924-927. 1907 (obit., portr.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1240-1241. 1898, 4: 1390. 1904, 5: 1157. 1926 (bibl.). - Russell, F.W., Mount Auburn biographies 148. s.d. - Shaler, N.S., The autobiography of N.S.S. with a supplementary memoir by his wife, Boston and New York 1909, ix, 482 p. (autobiogr., portr., bibl.) (rev. Nature 82: 274-275. 1910). - Sonnier, I.L., *in* J.F. Ohles, Biogr. dict. Amer. educ. 3: 1170-1171. 1978. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 480. 1888. - Wolff, J.E., Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 18: 592-608. 1907 (obit., portr., extensive bibl.). - Zittel, K.A. v., Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 278, 307, 462. 1899; Hist. geol. paleont. 307, 311. 1901. ### Publications ##### n.11.853. Report on the geology of Martha's Vineyard **Title** *Report on the geology of Martha's Vineyard*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1888. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1888, cover-t.p., p. 297-363, *pl. 19-29. Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 7: 297-363, *pl. 19-29.* 1888. ##### n.11.854. General account of the fresh-water morasses of the United States **Title** *General account of the fresh-water morasses of the United States*, with a description of the Dismal Swamp district of Virginia and North Carolina \[Tenth Ann. Rept. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1890\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891, *in* Ann. rep. U.S. Geol. Surv., Geol. 10: 225-339, *pl. 6-19. Copies*: HH, USDA. ##### n.11.855. Geology of the Cape Cod district **Title** *Geology of the Cape Cod district*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1898. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1898, cover-t.p., p. 497-593, *pl. 97-104. Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 18(2): 497-593. *pl. 97-104.* 1898.