Sedgwick
Sedgwick names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sedgwick ADAM, an English geologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ADAM, an English geologist; born in Dent, Yorkshire, England, 1, in 1785. He was educated at Sedberg and at Cambridge University and in 1818 was app appointed Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the latter; this chair he held till within a short time of his death. His chief services to geology consisted in the determination of the geological relations of the palæozoic strata of Devon and Cornwall, and of those strata afterward called Permian in the N. E. and N. W. of England, in the explanation of the geological character of north Wales, and not less in the enlargement of the geological museum at Cambridge. dge. The only considerable work of Professor Sedgwick's is a "Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge," which had a wide circulation. He died in Trinity College, Cambridge, Jan. 27, 1873.
Sedgwick ANNE DOUGLAS (Mrs
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANNE DOUGLAS (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), an American novelist, born in Englewood, N. J., in 1873. While still a child, she was taken abroad by her parents, where she remained for the greater part of her life. For several years she was a student of painting, and her pictures were shown at several exhibitions. Her novels include "The Dull Miss Archinard" (1898); "The Rescue" " (1902); Franklin Winslow Kane" (1910); "Tante " (1911); "The Encoun- " ( 4). She ter 1914). contributed many short stories to magazines.
Sedgwick ELLERY, an American
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELLERY, an American , born in Editor New York in 1872. He graduated from Harvard in 1894, and for a time taught at Groton School. From 1896 to 1900 he was assistant editor of "The Youth's Companion," and subsequently became editor of "Leslie's Magazine," and the " American Magazine." He purchased and became the editor of the "Atlantic Monthly ." He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of several historical societies.
Sedgwick HENRY DWIGHT, an author American
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY DWIGHT, an author American , born at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1861. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1884 and until 1898 practiced in New York. He wrote Life of " Father Hecker" (1897); "Life of Samuel Champlain" (1901); "Essays on Great Writers" (1902); "Life of Francis Parkman" (1904); "Italy in the Thirteenth Century " (1912); "Dante" (1919). He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 credited Adam Sedgwick with sorting out the palaeozoic strata of Devon and Wales, but understated his legacy: the Cambrian system he named in 1835, and the Devonian he established with Murchison, remain the foundation of the geological timescale, and his bitter quarrel with Murchison over the Cambrian-Silurian boundary was resolved only by Charles Lapworth's proposal of an intervening Ordovician period in 1879. The Cambridge museum he enlarged reopened in 1904 as the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and still bears his name; he is also remembered now as the man who taught Charles Darwin field geology in North Wales in 1831 and later rejected the "Origin of Species" outright. Of the three living Americans listed, Ellery Sedgwick went on to edit the "Atlantic Monthly" until 1938, a thirty-year tenure that defined the magazine; Anne Douglas Sedgwick's best-selling novel, "The Little French Girl," came in 1924, after this entry was written, though her books are now little read. Henry Dwight Sedgwick continued producing popular biographies for decades more.
Written for this edition, 2026.