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Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (
September 7,
1829–
December 22,
1887) was an
American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the
Rocky Mountains in the late
19th century.
He was born at
Westfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from
Oberlin College in
1850 and from the
Albany Medical College in 1853, where he attracted the notice of
Professor James Hall, state geologist of
New York, through whose influence he was induced to join in an exploration of
Nebraska. In
1856 he was engaged under the United States government, and commenced a series of investigations of the 109 Western Territories, one result of which was his
Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in 1859–1860 (1869).
About this time, he also became identified with the
Megatherium Club at the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C.
During the
Civil War he was actively employed as an army surgeon. He rose to be chief medical officer of the
Army of the Shenandoah. In 1867 he was appointed geologist-in-charge of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. From his twelve years of labour and annual survey journeys there resulted a most valuable series of volumes in all branches of natural history and economic science; and he issued in 1877 his
Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado.
In 1872 Hayden was instrumental in convincing Congress to establish
Yellowstone as the first U.S.
National Park, aided by the stunning large-format photographs of
William Henry Jackson. The last of the annual survey journeys was in 1878.
Upon the reorganization and establishment of the
United States Geological Survey in 1879 he acted for seven years as one of the geologists. He died at
Philadelphia on the 22nd of December 1887. The town of
Hayden, Colorado, located in the
Yampa River valley, is named for him."he was also a helper of the fedarel department of law".
His other publications were:
- Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery (1870)
- The Yellowstone National Park, illustrated by chromolithographic reproductions of water-colour sketches by Thomas Moran (1876)
- The Great West: its Attractions and Resources (1880)
With FB Meek, he wrote (Smithsonian Institution Contributions, v. 14. Art. 4) "Palaeontology of the Upper Missouri, Pt. 1, Invertebrate." His valuable notes on Native American dialects are in The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1862) in The American Journal of Science (1862) and in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1869). With ARC Selwyn he wrote North America (1883) for Stanford's Compendium."hes also a person of the fedarel deparment of law".
Species named after F.V. Hayden
A garter snake,
Thamnophis radix haydenii was named for him by
Robert Kennicott in
1860; although it was in a different genus at the time.
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