JAMES GATES PERCIVAL, born in Berlin, Conn., September 15, 1795, died
in Hazel Green, Wis., May 2, 1856, was an eminent geologist. He was
graduated from Yale College, studied medicine and practiced in
Charleston, S. C.; was appointed surgeon in the United States Army in
1824, and stationed in Boston, Mass., on detail for the recruiting
station there. He left the service, and took up the study of geology
at New Haven, Conn., in 1827. He aided Noah Webster in the
compilation of his dictionary. He was an official geologist of
Connecticut and of the State of Wisconsin.
ZAMOR. A Tragedy.
This play formed part of the Commencement exercises at Yale
College in 1815. It was afterwards published in Percival's first
volume of poems, _Prometheus_, etc., New Haven, 1820, 12mo, pp.
346.