The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Charles Conrad

ABBOTT, Charles Conrad, author and naturalist: b. Trenton, N. J., 4 June 1843. He received an academical education, and took the degree of M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1865. He is corresponding member Boston Society of Natural History; member American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; Fellow Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North, Copenhagen; Assistant, Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., 1876-89. Author: &lsquo;Primitive Industry&rsquo; (1881); &lsquo;Naturalist Rambles about Home&rsquo; (1884); &lsquo;Upland and Meadow&rsquo; (1886); &lsquo;Waste-land Wanderings&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;Days Out of Doors&rsquo; (1889); &lsquo;Outings at Odd Times&rsquo; (1890); &lsquo;Recent Rambles&rsquo; (1892); &lsquo;Travels in a Tree-top&rsquo; (1894); &lsquo;The Birds About Us&rsquo; (1894); &lsquo;Notes of the Night&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;A Colonial Wooing&rsquo; (novel, 1895); &lsquo;Birdland Echoes&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;When the Century was New&rsquo; (novel, 1897); &lsquo;The Hermit of Nottingham&rsquo; (novel, 1897); &lsquo;The Freedom of the Fields&rsquo; (1898); &lsquo;Clear Skies and Cloudy&rsquo; (1899); &lsquo;In Nature's Realm&rsquo; (1900); &lsquo;Archæologia Nova Cæsarea&rsquo; (1907-09); &lsquo;Ten Years' Diggings in Lenâpè Land&rsquo; (1912); Various Reports on Indian Stone Implements, in American Naturalist (1872), revised and enlarged as &lsquo;Stone Age in New Jersey&rsquo; in Smithsonian Annual Report of 1876. In 1876 he announced the discovery, since confirmed by other archæologists, of traces of man in the Delaware River valley, dating from the first or &ldquo;Kansan&rdquo; ice-age and inferentially the pre-glacial period when man is believed to have entered upon the North American continent.