The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kneeland, Samuel

KNEELAND, Samuel, American naturalist: b. Boston, Mass., 1 Aug. 1821; d. Hamburg, Germany. 27 Sept. 1888. He was graduated from Harvard in 1840, practised medicine in Boston 1845-50, and was an army surgeon during the Civil War. In 1866 he became professor of zoology and physiology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a member of numerous scientific societies, and in addition to editing &lsquo;The Annual of Scientific Discovery&rsquo; (1886-89), a translation of &lsquo;Andry's Diseases of the Heart&rsquo; (1847), and Smith's &lsquo;History of the Human Species,&rsquo; he wrote &lsquo;Science and Mechanism&rsquo; (1854); &lsquo;The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California&rsquo; (1871); &lsquo;An American in Iceland&rsquo; (1876); &lsquo;Volcanoes and Earthquakes&rsquo; (1888).