Stevens, Richard P.

Richard P. Stevens was a medical doctor, geologist, writer, and Republican. He had connections to Illinois and Ohio, and was a long-time resident of New York City. He was a member and one-time chairman of the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute. He wrote articles and delivered addresses on geology during and after the Civil War, with much of his work focusing on New York.

Nelson Horatio Darton, Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology 1732-1891 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896), 915-16; Richard P. Stevens to Abraham Lincoln; Documents of the Assembly of the State of New-York, Eighty-Third Session: 1860 (Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1860), 6:481, 569, 572; The Naturalists' Directory, Part I: North America and the West Indies (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1865), 27.