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Dr. Robinson's Lectures on Geology

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  • Title: Dr. Robinson's Lectures on Geology
  • Date: 13 January 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01430
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 13 January 1859: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
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  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Dr. Robinson's Lectures on Geology." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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DR. ROBINSON'S LECTURES ON GEOLOGY.—

The first of this series of lectures was delivered last evening at the Odeon, to an audience of very fair size, considering the unsettled state of the weather. The evening was taken up principally by explanations of the theory of the formation of the earth, it central fires, volcanoes, &c., illustrated by the diagrams and paintings usual to science and geology. A large painting of Niagra Falls elicited much commendation, and was certainly a very fine picture. The lecturer announced, as his subject for next Friday evening, the formation of the different strata of the earth, mines &c., and particularly gold mines. We shall speak of these lectures more particularly hereafter.

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