College notebook, 1859, Columbia, S.C.

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College notebook, 1859, Columbia, S.C.

Notes on geology lectures by Dr. Joseph LeConte, South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C.

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Nettles, Joseph Edward

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LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901

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Joseph LeConte, born in 1823, graduated from the University of Georgia in 1841. He enrolled in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1844 and received an M.D. in 1845. He married Elizabeth Caroline Nisbet in 1847 and established a medical practice in Macon. Because his first love was geology, however, he enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1850 to study with the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz. Upon completing his studies in 1851 he returned to Georgia and became...