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Very good condition. Red-brown cloth (original) binding with border on front and rear covers. Minor wear on bottom one inch of lower rear spine. Contains eighteen articles (essays and reviews) of which three are exceptional and are entitled ?The Constitution of Nature,? ?Scope and Limit of Scientific Materialism,? and ?Dust and Disease.? The latter is a classic in its field. Signature of ?Judge William A. Carter from Dr. Leity? on title page.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) was a leading popularizer of science. Among his contributions was his service as a scientific adviser to various organizations and his help in founding Nature. With Herbert Spencer and Thomas Huxley he advised Edward Livingston Youmans on the International Scientific series. In May 1843, Tyndall was unanimously chosen as professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution. The appointment had the special effect of making him a colleague of Faraday and the two men worked together harmoniously during the years that followed.
Signed by Judge William A. Carter who was born on April 15, 1818, at Pittsylvania, Prince William County, Virginia. He became post trader at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, his operations commencing, in the winter of 1857-8 in the camp established two miles above the place where the fort was to be erected. In 1858 the site of the fort was located and work begun on the buildings. The post store and trader's residence occupied a square adjoining the officers, and here was Judge Carter's home, which in time became known throughout a wide area as the center of bounteous hospitality. This title of "Judge" came to him from his appointment as US commissioner, in which judicial capacity he had frequently to examine and often commit for trial by the Federal court at Salt Lake City, the lawless and dangerous men then frequenting this wild section. In August 1861, the exigencies of the Civil War took away the garrison at Fort Bridger. Judge Carter assumed the transportation of the government property to Denver. This undertaking required forty wagons and besides arming each driver a guard of twenty selected men accompanied the train. From Denver Judge Carter hastily returned to Fort Bridger where the departure of the troops had left no security for the safety of life or property. Bands of Indians were committing outrages and there was nothing to check their ravages. To meet this emergency Judge Carter organized a company of sixty men from the settlers and employee of the Overland Stage Co. and himself, and purchasing arms for the outfit at his own expense he converted a portion of his store building into an armory and drill room and daily drills were initiated. Through the whole of the Civil War period, Judge Carter was in constant and dangerous activity. He was then a special agent of the US P0 department for the inspection of the handling of the mails, his duties calling him frequently over the wild route of the Overland Stage Co., and sometimes to the Pacific coast. He engaged extensively as a pioneer in cattle raising and took a prominent part in the efforts made to organize the territory of Wyoming, and from his opportunities and was so prominently connected with the formation of the Wyoming territory that President Grant offered to commission him as its first governor, an honor that he declined, as the duties would deprive him too much of that domestic life that was to him the highest charm of existence. Judge Carter died on November 7, 1881.
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