Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1908
He conducted an expedition to Yucatan and Mexico in 1890. A month was spent in the Peninsula of Yucatan exploring the caves and ruins and making collections. During the subsequent visit to Mexico the peaks of Orizaba, Popocatepetl. Nevado de Toluca and Ixtaccihuatl were ascended and their altitudes determined, the results being published in the Proceedings of the Academy on the return of the expedition. Points of interest determined related to the geology of Yucatan and the existence of coral reefs in the western water of the Gulf of Mexico. He regarded Orizaba as the culminating point of the North American continent, but it is now known that at least two of the Alaskan mountains are higher.
The publication of his Principles of Geology, 1890, forming the seventh volume of the Iconographic Encyclopedia is another evidence of his extraordinary industry and power of application.
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