Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Edward F. B. Orton, Ph.D. and LL.D., a prominent geologist, died yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and of Lane Seminary, and in 1852-53 was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1872 he became president of the Ohio State University, where he had for some time been a professor of geology. In 1882 he was made state geologist of Ohio, a position which he has filled ever since. He was also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Among the remaining members of the class there will be a biologist, a superintendent of public schools, a commission merchant, two draughtsmen, three writers and literary critics, an iron founder, a coffee cultivator, a musician, a geologist, an entomologist, a mining expert, a forester, a gas engineer, three military men, a dentist, a wholesale grocer, a dealer in live stock, an actor, an artist, and a missionary...
Other contributions are: "Outside the Dance," by J. F. B.; "The Geologist," by J. A. M.; "At the 'Orange Tree'," by F. W. C. Hersey '99; and "To Him that Hath Not shall be Given," by Norton Shaw...
...century Prince Kropotkin has been a political refugee from Russia. An account of his dramatic escape from prison in St. Petersburg is given in Stepniak's "Underground Russia." Prince Kropotkin has lived quietly in England for many years and as a man of science, particularly as a geographer and geologist, he takes high rank...
Among the remaining fifty were numbered an orange grower, a farmer, a geologist, a capitalist, a chemist, a planter, a cadet in the revenue service, an assistant paymaster in the U. S. Navy; a landscape architect, and a few theological students, engineers of various kinds, and bank clerks...