Joseph Pitty Couthouy (6 January 1808 Boston, Massachusetts - died in battle in Louisiana, 4 April 1864) was an American naval officer, conchologist, and invertebrate palaeontologist. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1808 ( MDCCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An officer is a member of an armed force who holds a position of authority Conchology is the scientific, semi-scientific or Amateur study of mollusk shells (in the UK spelled mollusc shells Palaeontology redirects here For the Scientific journal, see Palaeontology (journal.
He entered the Boston Latin School in 1820. The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the Year 1820 ( MDCCCXX) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year He married Mary Greenwood Wild on 9 March 1832. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1832 ( MDCCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian
Couthouy applied to President Andrew Jackson for a position on the Scientific Corps of the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Andrew Jackson (March 15 1767 June 8 1845 was the seventh President of the United States (1829&ndash1837 The United States Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean ("the Southern Seas" conducted by the United States Navy from President Jackson said that all positions were filled, to which Couthouy replied "Well General, I'll be hanged if I don't go, if I have to go before the mast!" The President replied "Go back to Boston and I will see if anything can be done for you. "
A few days later his commission was received. He sailed with the expedition on 18 August 1838, but was returned home from Honolulu in November 1840 by Lt. Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Honolulu is the Capital and most populous Census-designated place (CDP in the U Events in November All Saints' Day (formerly All Hallows Day a Christian holy day is celebrated on November 1, the day after Halloween Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Charles Wilkes for "disobedience of orders. Charles Wilkes ( April 3, 1798 &ndash February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. " Although he meticulously labeled all of his specimens from the expedition, Dall recounts how "The authorities in Washington had appointed a reverened gentleman who knew nothing of science, with a fat salary, to unpack and take care of the specimens sent home by the expedition. " This gentleman, then separated the specimens from the tags thus rendering many of them useless. Couthouy returned to Washington and tried to work up what he could of the collection and was then informed "to crown all of his misfortunes" that his pay was to be reduced by forty-four percent. He then returned to his profession as a master in the merchant marine, visiting South America and the Pacific. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a In 1854, he took command of an expedition to the Bay of Cumana, where he spent three unsuccessful years in search of the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship, the San Pedro, lost there in the early part of the century. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year
A good linguist, he spoke fluent Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese and had mastered several dialects used in the Pacific Islands. Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation
In the U. S. Civil War, Couthouy was ordered to command the USS Columbia on 31 December 1862, which was wrecked, and Couthouy made prisoner. Nine United States Navy ships have been named USS Columbia, after the personification of the United States, also after the city of Columbia South Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday He later commanded the USS Osage and finally the USS Chillicothe where on 3 April 1864, while off Grand Ecore, Louisiana, he was shot during an ambush and died the following day. Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Osage after the Osage Native American tribe Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America
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References
- Abbott, R. T. , and M. E. Young (eds. ). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia.
- Dall, W. H. 1888. Some American conchologists. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 4:95-134.
- Johnson, R. I. 1946. Occasional Papers on Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 1(5):33-40.
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