Excerpt from Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families While in Edinburgh, Professor Silliman became interested in the discussions. Then at their height, between the W ernerians and Huttonians. And attend ed lectures on geology; and on his return he began the studyr of the mineral structure of the vicinity of New Haven. I arrived in New Haven fro-m Scot land on the first of June, 1806. And. On the first day of September I read to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 report on the mineral structure of the environs of New Haven, which was printed in the first volume of the Transactions of the Acad emy. This report occupies fourteen pages, and hav ing been published more than fiftv - two years ago when I was twenty-seven vea-rs of age - I have been gratified to find that an attentive re-perusal yester day (jan. 6, 1859) - after I know not how many years of oblivion - suggested very few alterations, and I have not discovered any important errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.