A Tourist in Germany

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Coleman's geological studies in Germany involved examining regional rock formations and visiting local mines. His thesis was on the "Melaphyres of Lower Silesia," an investigation of paleovolcanic erruptive rocks.

The young student travelled throughout Germany in 1880—1881. His sketchbook shows that he had an eye for the "picturesque." Coleman sketched local markets, churches, rivers, animals, street corners, and castles. These scenes also feature in Coleman's watercolours. (Coleman returned to Germany on a number of occasions. In 1890 - 1891 he spent a year studying at the University of Frieberg. He attended conferences, and travelled with Helena in the early years of the twentieth century. He captured many of the same places in black and white photographs.)

At the end of term in 1881, Coleman travelled to the "North Cape" of Arctic Norway. There he had his first experience of mountain climbing. This was a trip that Coleman later remembered as having stimulated his interest in glaciers. (Please see the Section "Arctic Exploration.")

Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. Freiberg Saxony, 1890 :[289].
Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. A Street in Strasburg, 1881.
Watercolour. A.P. Coleman. Well to do Bauer's House in a mountain village, Silesia, 1881.
Artifact. "Breslau University Record of Marks", ca 1881, pages 2 - 3
Published work. A.P. Coleman. Cover, The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882
Published work. A.P. Coleman. "The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia" [title page] in The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882
Published work. A.P. Coleman. "Life (page 56, Thesis)." in The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ; Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882, page 56 Transcript
Photograph. Untitled, German? town on a river, (white album). n.d.
Photograph. Untitled, German? hill town with church steeples', (white album). n.d.
Photograph. Untitled, German? town with soldiers, (red album). n.d.
Photograph. Highest chimney in the world near Frieberg, Saxony (Helena Coleman in midground?), (red album). n.d.
Photograph. Cathedral, Freiberg Saxony, (red album). n.d.
Photograph. Untitled, German? town with a river and bridges, (red album). n.d.

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Published work. A.P. Coleman. Cover, The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882
Published work. A.P. Coleman. "The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia" [title page] in The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882

LIFE.

     I, Arthur P. Coleman, was born in the year 1852 in the Province of Quebec, Canada. In religion I am Evangelical. After preparation in various public schools, I spent two years in the Collegiate Institute of Cobourg (Canada) and was in 1872 admitted by matriculation into the University of Victoria College of the same town. Having completed a four years course I received in 1876 the degree of Bachelor of Arts with honors, and three years later, that of Masters of Arts. On the advice of my loved and honored professor of Physics in that University, Dr. E. Haanel, who first gave my thoughts a decided impulse in the direction of science, I sailed for Germany and in the Autumn of 1880 was matriculated in the University of Breslau, where during four semesters I have heard lectures by Professors: Cohn, Dilthey, Goeppert, Liebisch, Loewig, Poleck, Roemer, and Schneider. I enjoyed a semester’s Botanical exercises with the microscope in Prof. Dr. F. Cohn’s Institute and a semester’s Zoological exercises with Prof. Dr. Schneider. A semester each was spent in Prof. Dr. Poleck’s Chemical Laboratory and the one attached to the Mineralogical Museum. I have worked each semester in the Mineralogical and Palaeontological Collections of Geheimrath Professor Dr. Roemer. My special gratitude is due to Geheimrath Roemer for permission to use his splendid Collections and Library, as well as for his great kindness in other ways; to Prof. Dr. F. Cohn; and to Prof. Dr. Liebisch, whose thorough knowledge of Silesian Minerals and the literature connected with them were of very great assistance in the preparation of the foregoing Dissertation.

Published work. A.P. Coleman. "Life (page 56, Thesis)." in The Melaphyres of Lower Silesia. Inagural Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ; Breslau: [The University of Breslau], 1882, page 56 Transcript