Shaler
NATHANIEL SOUTH- GATE, an American geologist; born near Newport, Ky., Feb. 22, 1841. He served two years as an artillery officer in the Union army during the Civil War; was instructor in zoölogy and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, in 1868-1872; Professor of Palæontology in 1868-1887; then Professor of Geology; dean of Lawrence Scientific School; and after 1884 geologist in charge of Atlantic Division United States Geological Survey.
Among his works are the "Kentucky Geological Reports and Memoirs" (7 vols., 1876-1882); "On the Nature of Intellectual Prop Property and its Importance to the State" (1878); "Aspects of the Earth" (1889); "The Story of our Continent" (1892); "Nature and Man in North America" (1892); "The Interpretation of Nature" (1895); "Sea and Land" (1894); "The United States of America (2 vols., 1893); "The Individual: Study of Life and Death" (1900); "The Citizen," "The Neighbor" (1904); "Man and the Earth" (1905); and reports of United States Geological Survey on Marine Marshes, Fresh-Water Swamps, Soils, Harbors, etc. He died in 1906.