Mitchill

Afterward Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill had ceremoniously poured out waters from several sacred rivers—the Ganges, the Nile, the Amazon, the Thames, the Seine; fourteen in all—“as an emblem of our commercial intercourse with all parts of the world.”

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

Afterward Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill had ceremoniously poured out waters from several sacred rivers—the Ganges, the Nile, the Amazon, the Thames, the Seine; fourteen in all—“as an emblem of our commercial intercourse with all parts of the world.”

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

Suggested causes for the collapse of zander Stizostedion lucioperca (L.) populations in northern and central Finland through comparisons with North American walleye, Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill).

Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009

By 1791 Mitchill was in the New York Legislature, and a year later he started a fifteen-year term as professor of chemistry, natural history, and agriculture at Columbia College.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Mitchill wrote over two hundred articles on everything from Galapagos tortoises to Spanish chestnuts, Hudson Valley geology, politics, Native American culture, biography, and zoology and earned the nickname “chaos of knowledge.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

Would Mitchill also claim that an “orang outang” was a freeman, entitled to vote?

Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story 2007

Mitchill wrote over two hundred articles on everything from Galapagos tortoises to Spanish chestnuts, Hudson Valley geology, politics, Native American culture, biography, and zoology and earned the nickname “chaos of knowledge.”

American Connections James Burke 2007

He also ran simultaneous jobs working for several states and cities and was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, where one of his friends was a young doctor from Long Island, Sam Mitchill.

American Connections James Burke 2007

By 1791 Mitchill was in the New York Legislature, and a year later he started a fifteen-year term as professor of chemistry, natural history, and agriculture at Columbia College.

American Connections James Burke 2007

He also ran simultaneous jobs working for several states and cities and was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, where one of his friends was a young doctor from Long Island, Sam Mitchill.

American Connections James Burke 2007