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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • sional men and scientists who dominated the world of science nearly eighty years ago, and whose names were supposed to be perpetuated by applying them to outstanding peaks of the Great Smokies, only four remain in common usage. These nine men, four of whom are forgotten, were as follows: Alexander, prominent botanist of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton; Henry, first secretary of the Smithsonian Institute; Buckley, commonly called a Tennessee scientist, but a rover who wrote a geology of Texas; Safford, professor of geology at Vanderbilt University; Curtis, pupil of Aggasiz, who taught the children of the then governor of North Carolina and wrote several pamphlets on the remarkable flora of the Great Smokies; Mingus, a revered physician of North Carolina and a man of science who loved the Smokies: Clingman, United States senator from North Carolina and a well-versed geologist who disputed with Mitchell about the discoverer of the highest mountain east of the Rockies; LeConte, chemist of the Southern Confederacy, who was anxious about deposits of alum salts around Alum Cave; and Guyot. LeConte assisted Guyot in his surveys during the period of 1855 to 1860. keeping hourly barometric observations at Asheville for checking purposes. The carpetbag politicians of post-war days, however, were too obnoxious to this man of delicate and fine sentiment, and he removed to the newly organized Berkeley University in California. Guyot was a Swiss-Alpine scientist, an instructor in geology at Princeton, and in the employ of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for five years. The memories of LeConte, Guyot, Clingman, and Mingus are perpetuated in peak names. The lives of these men are subjects of much interest to us who have visited the mountain peaks named for them. Therefore, the talks at this meeting should be a distinctly novel and worthwhile program for all of us. Meet at the Y. M. C. A. at 7:30 P. M. Leaders: R. L. MASON (Phone 3-8773) and FLORA MALLOY (Phone 2-8107). 14
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