123 - United States, William Channing Woodbridge (1794–1845). An American geographer and author of numerous educational works in Europe and the United States.

United States, William Channing Woodbridge (1794–1845). An American geographer and author of numerous educational works in Europe and the United States. During his second trip to Europe between 1824 and 1829, he worked in collaboration with Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as with the Paris Geographical Society—where he lived in 1827— on the development of his new geography textbook. He placed geography at the center of evolution because it was less subject to change and believed that differences among humans were due solely to education and certain opportunities. He would bring a more European perspective on the world to the United States. Map of Africa bearing annotations for corrections (“Erase all the names and boundaries marked”) in the author’s own hand on a part of sub-Saharan Africa that was still little known at the time, sent from Paris to London with a text signed by Woodbridge giving his instructions. Letter from Paris to London, September 10, 1827