William Dwight Whitney
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William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social insti
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Josiah Whitney
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Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey. Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regi
William Dwight Whitney
…continued studying and worked at a bank in Northampton for several years. He was at first interested in natural sciences, and assisted his older brother Josiah Whitney on a geological survey of the Lake Superior region in 1849, having charge of the botany, the barometrical observations and the accounts. On this…
Portrait of Whitney by Silas Selleck, 1863