Charles Upham Shepard
American prof. of chemistry, Medical College of the State of South Carolina
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Upham Shepard was an American mineralogist. Biography He graduated from Amherst College in 1824, and spent a year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying botany and mineralogy with Thomas Nuttall, and at the same time gave instructed on these topics in Boston. The study of mineralogy led to his preparation of papers on that subject which he sent to the American Journal of Science, and in this manner he became acquainted with Benjamin Silliman, the elder. He was invited in 1827 to become Silliman's assistant, and continued so until 1831. Meanwhile, for a year he was curator of Franklin Hall, an institution that was established by James Brewster in New Haven, Connecticut, for popular lectures on scientific subjects to mechanics.
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- A Treatise On Mineralogy (15)
- On two new minerals, monetite and monite, with a notice of pyroclasite (1882) (14)
- New classification of meteorites with an enumeration of meteoric species (1867) (6)
- Tea culture: the experiment in South Carolina. By Dr. Charles U. Shepard ... (3)
- On a new mineral, pyrophosphorite, and anhydrous pyrophosphate of lime from the West Indies (1878) (3)
- Note upon the origin of the phosphatic formation (1869) (3)
- Native iron? Slightly arseniuretted (1828) (2)
- Special report on tea-raising in South Carolina. By Charles U. Shepard. (2)
- Notice of the meteoric stone of Waconda, Mitchell County, Kansas (1876) (2)
- THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENT OF THE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY. (1893) (1)
- Mineral notices (1866) (1)
- On the corundum region of North Carolina and Georgia with descriptions of two gigantic crystals of that species (1872) (1)
- On the supposed tadpole nests, or imprints made by the Batrachoides nidificans Hitchcock, in the red shale of the New Red Sandstone of South Hadley, Massachusetts (1867) (1)
- On the Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, meteorite of May 10, 1879 (1879) (1)
- On a meteoric iron lately found in Eldorado County, California (1872) (1)
- On the meteoric iron of Lexington Co., S.C. (1881) (1)
- Notices of new meteoric irons in the United States (1869) (1)
- On the Ivanpah, California, meteoric iron (1880) (1)
- South Carolina phosphates. A lecture delivered before the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., December 12, 1879, by Charles U. Shepard, jr. ... with a map of the South Carolina phosphatic deposits (1)
- Mineralogical contributions (1870) (1)
- On the meteoric stone of Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana (1877) (1)
- On meteoric iron from near Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia (1883) (0)
- Additional notice of the Coahuila meteoric iron (1867) (0)
- Notices of several American meteorites (1860) (0)
- Brief notices of several localities of meteoric iron (1866) (0)
- Report of an analysis of cotton-wool, cotton-seed, Indian corn, and the yam potato, made for the Black Oak Agricultural Society, by Prof. C. U. Shepard. (0)
- On hermannolite, a new species of the columbium group (1876) (0)
- On scheeletine at the Southampton lead mine, Massachusetts, and uwarowite at Wood's chrome mine, Texas, Pennsylvania (1866) (0)
- New locality of meteoric iron in Coahuila, northern Mexico (1866) (0)
- Mineralogical notices (1865) (0)
- On the corundum region of North Carolina and Georgia, with descriptions of two gigantic crystals of that species (1872) (0)
- Notice of corundum gems in the Himalaya region of India (1883) (0)
- Notice of the meteoric stone of Searsmont, Maine (1871) (0)
- Notes on the occurrence and composition of the nodular phosphates of South Carolina (1869) (0)
- On a new meteoric iron of unknown locality in the Smithsonian institution (1881) (0)
- Mineralogical notices (1864) (0)
- On meteoric iron from Trinity County, California (1885) (0)
- On aquacreptite, a new mineral, and on corundophylite of Chester [Massachusetts] (1868) (0)
- Foreign phosphates, being a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, April 21, 1879, by Dr. Charles U. Shepard, jr., at the laboratory of the Medical College. (0)
- A new locality of meteoric iron in Georgia (1868) (0)
- On the meteorite of Formatlan, Jalisco, Mex (1885) (0)
- Mineralogical notices; a peculiar mineral of the scapolite family; etc. (1880) (0)
- Record Unit 7283 Charles Upham Shepard Papers, 1830, 1842-1894 and undated (0)
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