First of American geologists was William McClure, Scot ... the great naturalist, John J. Audubon, French-Spanish, taught us about birds of America ... many inspired to study natural sciences by Louis Agassiz, French ... Henry D. Thoreau, Huguenot, was great naturalist and writer ... famous anthropologists are Franz Boas and Edward Sapir, German Jews, and Ales Hrdlicka, Czech.
International authority on zoology and botany is Leonhard Steiniger, Norwegian ... expert on function of cell and fertilization is Ernest Just, Negro ... first botanical garden in world founded near Philadelphia by John Bartram, Welsh, early in 18th century ... public garden, established in Georgia by General Oglethorpe, English, served as our first agricultural experiment station ... scientific breeding of plants demonstrated by Luther Burbank, English-French-Netherlander-Scot.
Philosophers
Famous philosophers: Wm. James, Welsh-English ... John Dewey, Irish ... Santayana, Spaniard ... Jiddu Krishnamurti, Hindu.
Agriculture
First vineyard in our country was set out by Jean Jacques Dufour, Swiss ... oranges, olives, dates, and grapes were brought to California by Fray Junipero Serra, Spaniard ... fig cuttings were imported by Denotovitch of Fresno, Yugoslav ... wild strawberry developed into large table variety by Johann Schwerdkopf, German, who came to Long Island before Revolutionary War.
Alfalfa seed, known as Lucerne, brought to Minnesota and developed by Wendelin Grimm, German, in 1858 ... hardy alfalfa for prairies of northwest, brought from Siberia and Turkestan by Niels Hansen, Dane ... mower and reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick, Scotch-Irish.
Simple tests to determine whether soil needs nitrogen, phosphates, or potash devised by George Hoffer, German ... pasteurization introduced by Julius Moldenhawar, Dane ... orange that will stay on tree for months after ripening propagated by Lue Gim Gong, Chinese ... honey industry revolutionized by Frank Jaeger, Yugoslav.
Early cooperative creamery at Clark’s Grove, Minn., organized under leadership of Hans Jensen, Dane ... first to find trichina spiralis in hogs and hookworm in cats was Joseph Leidy, German ... International Institute of Agriculture established by David Lubin, Polish-Jew.