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geologists he prepared the geological report for 1837. He was paleontologist of the New York Geological Survey from 1838 until 1841, and wrote the annual reports in that department. He also made the reports of paleontological discoveries in the Pacific Railroad Survey and the Mexican Boundary Survey.
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He was from early life an investigator of American paleontology and natural history, devoting himself to the study of the shells of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations, and to existing species of
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He defended the theory of periodical refrigeration, and suggested that the Mississippi depression was the consequence of the upheaval of the
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Sources differ as to whether his name was Timothy Abbott Conrad or Timothy Conrad Abbott (see
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elected Conrad to Membership in 1865 for his contributions to science.
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American Philosophical Society Members History Database
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Trenton, New Jersey
American Philosophical Society
Author abbrev. (zoology)
Trenton, New Jersey
geologist
malacologist
mollusks
Unionidae
American Journal of Science

Leptoxis plicata
New York state
Appalachians
Rocky Mountains
Royal Society
American Philosophical Society
Category:Taxa named by Timothy Abbott Conrad
List of people from Trenton, New Jersey
"Timothy Abbott Conrad"
The Nautilus



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Wilson, J. G.
Fiske, J.
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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
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