MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences THE ACADEMY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, >9*4CITY OF WASHINGTONPUBLISHED RY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY or SCIENCES March, 1915WASHINGTON, D. c.PRESS OF JUDD & DETWEII.ER. JNC.1915CHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT.It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of the MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesir youth. One who would at this late day speak of the early life of our colleague, Charles Anthony Schott, will find that his life was wholly devotedMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
to the work of the Coast Survey. His companions of those days have passed away; were they living we cannot doubt that they would give one universal teNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesventual report thereon. He would recall an interview with Gauss and his account of the geodetic and magnetic work in which that gifted man was interested. He would recall that he had himself visited the Polytechnic School at Carlsruhe and knew that, any graduate from that institution, wljere Schott MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesbegan study three years later, would be a desirable addition to America and to the Girard College that was then uppermost in his mind. He would tell UMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
S of Humboldt, of Sabine, of Bessel at Kõnigsburg, of Struve at Dorpat, and of the great works they were doing for the benefit of the world. Bache estNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencespict the strength and work of one who, like Carl Anton Schott, left the impress of his own character and of his example on every detail of such a great national undertaking as our Coast and Geodetic Survey, and equally so on every man associated with him in the prosecution of the work of the Survey. MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences As a great man’s influence never ends, so also there is no definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsiveMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. Granting that we must protect our shipping, by surveying, mappNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences new addition to our possessions; it follows that the Survey becomes one of87NATIONAL ACADEMY BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS—VOL. VIII our permanent institutions, essential to our prosperity. It must increase in thoroughness, efficiency, and expense so long as our Republic preserves its vitality and energy. I MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencests activity must penetrate into every branch of knowledge and into every new path of exploration.We vividly realize the pleasure it must have given ScMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
hott, from his youth onward to old age, to take such an important part for over 50 years in framing the fundamental organization of the Survey and itsNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesed the importance of a thorough knowledge of field work as well as office work ; his own activities in every line of work have served as ideals for hundreds of expert assistants. The hydrography of harbors, channels, rivers, and oceans, the details of the minute accuracy of base-line measurements, t MemoirSchottNationalAcademyScienceshe sources of errors in geodetic triangles, the methods of determining astronomical latitudes and longitudes, the methods of hypsometric determinationMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
s, the errors of magnetic and pendulum apparatus, were all known and appreciated and many of them greatly improved by him, to say nothing of the effecNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences basis for his life work. His early years were spent in helping Bachc to lay solid foundations for the structure that was to bring honor to all engaged upon it. He brought to us from Germany those abilities and tendencies that by inheritance and education characterize the great German nation, to whi MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesch we are ourselves so closely related. European civilization has developed innumerable peculiarities, characteristic of nations, families, localitiesMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
, and the progress of the age. These have been brought across the Atlantic from Europe to America with each successive wave of migration. The ideal exNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesatical precision, are to be held as most precious characteristics.Our colleague was born at Mannheim on the Rhine, in the Duchy of Baden, August 7, 1826, the oldest son of Anton Carl 88CHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT—ABBESchott and Anna Maria Hoffmann. The inheritance of some property by the mother sufficed MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesto insure the comfort of the family during the succeeding years. The happiness of the child at home is well assured by a glance at the sweet little “nMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
ew. year’s poem’’ read by him on January I, 1833, as a tribute to his parents on that annual holiday. “To your faithfulness alone I owe my happiness” NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences or two from which Ĩ am allowed to quote:Autobkx’.raphy of the Early Life of Charles Anthony Schott.“As the most momentous question in any biographical sketch is that of birth, I begin with that event, which happened to me on August 7, 1826, at Mannheim, in the Duchy of Baden, at the confluence of t MemoirSchottNationalAcademyScienceshe Neckar and the Rhine. My parents belonged to the middle class, my father being a merchant, the son of a judge, who left him no fortune in consequenMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
ce of the Napoleonic wars, which were particularly hard on the inhabitants of the Rhine provinces. My mother, however, being an heiress, placed US in NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences. Although my father was christened in the Catholic church he was nevertheless a man of free thought. All religious ideas that I ever had were due to my mother’s influence. J had two sisters and one brother, my sister Anna being the only one who lived to old age.“My earliest recollection is of my cr MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencesying on being unable to open my eyes one morning, they being glued together. My second, a walk across the market-place with tny parents. We met an acqMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
uaintance who asked me, ‘How old are you?’ My mother told me to say, ‘I am in my third year.’ My first memory of school days is learning to read my leNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciencessaid, ‘Yes,’ and was promptly sent to the free public school, being then six years old. Here I was taught the rudimentary studies— reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, and a little geography—for three years. At this time we had a French governess at home to drill US in the French language.“At the MemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences age of ten or eleven I entered the Lyceum or classical school at Mannheim, where 1 was pestered with Latin for four years and one year with Greek, toMemoirSchottNationalAcademySciences
my great disgust, as Ĩ had more aptitude and keen sense for natural history. Beside the classics we had mathematics, natural history, geography, and,NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRSPAftT OF VOLUME VIIIBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIROFCHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT1826-1901BYCLEVELAND ABBEPRESENTED TOGọi ngay
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