Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Samuel Franklin Emmons, geologist; eminent in science; forty years in the service of the nation, skilfully exploring the mineral resources of the continent...
...Charles Van Hise Pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geologist, professor successively of metallurgy, mineralogy and geology, president of the leading state university, the University of Wisconsin...
...student he was known primarily as a geologist, but he had investigated as well practically every other branch of science. In his scientific work he was essentially a pioneer and investigator: an enthusiastic explorer of volcanoes and caverns, and curious, unusual phenomena in geology. He placed himself repeatedly in danger, and was several times an eye-witness of avalanches and landslides...
...robes, they look just like plain men; but with Shaler it was his subject that was known through him; leave off his geology and he was still a marked man, a striking figure, the centre of every group he joined. He was so many other things besides being a geologist and a professor; he served on the Massachusetts topographical survey commission, on the state highway commission, on the gypsy moth commission; he was actively interested in mining enterprises in the South and West; he wrote books and magazine articles on many subjects; he was a practical, influential, honest politician...
...went to Australia and for two years visited and studied most of the important mining districts in New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales. Victoria and Tasmania. He then returned to Colorado and carried on a general practice as a consulting engineer. In 1895 he was appointed state geologist of Colorado and held-this honorary position for six years. Since then he has examined mines in British Columbia and West Australia and has been consulting engineer to several important mines in Colorado. He has been for many years a contributor to the Engineering and Mining Journal, of which...