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Wheater, WBiblio.com

Handbook for tourists in Yorkshire and complete history of the County 2 vols.

Branner, John C (Casper) , With Discussion By J F Kemp And James C MeemBiblio.com

Geology In Its Relations To Topography

1898029386American Society Of Civil Engineers 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Maps And Figures. Pp 54-95 Offprint Of A Talk Presented November 17Th 1897 By Branner Published In The Transactions Of The American Society Of Civil Engineers Vol. Xxxix June 1898 #821. Blue-Grey Printed Wrappers Fine Condition. Inscribed By The Author To Geologist James Perrin Clark. Very Scarce Offprint Seven Institutional Copies Shown In Worldcat. Per Wikipedia John Casper Branner 1850 -1922 Was An American Geologist And Academic Who. He Was A Member Of The Founding Faculty At Stanford And Served As The University's Second President. He Was An Expert In Brazilian Geology Among Many Other Things. During The Civil War He Was Very Anxious To Join The Confederate Army And On Two Occasions Left School For The Purpose Of Enlisting. His Age However Prevented His Being Accepted; He Was Only Thirteen.In 1869 Went To Ithaca New York To Attend Cornell University. He Spent A Year Attending Ithaca Academy And Entered Cornell In 1870 In The So-Called Classical Course. In 1874 Without Having Completed His University Studies He Went By Way Of Europe To Brazil With Charles Fred Hartt Then Professor Of Geology At Cornell. In 1875 He Was Made Assistant On The Geological Survey Of Brazil And Remained On That Work Until The Survey Was Abolished By The Government And Professor Hartt Died. In 1879 He Accepted A Position As Assistant Engineer And Interpreter For The São Cyriaco Gold Mining Company Of Boston And Spent A Year Near Serro State Of Minas Geraes In The Diamond Regions Of Brazil. In 1881 He Returned To The United States But Was Sent Back To South America By Thomas Edison In Search Of A Vegetable Fiber For Use In His Then Newly Invented Incandescent Electric Lamp. In 1882 He Returned To Cornell University Completed His Studies And Graduated. In 1883 To 1885 He Was Topographic Geologist Of The Geological Survey Of Pennsylvania In The Anthracite Regions; In 1885 After Receiving His Ph.D. From Indiana University He Was Made Professor Of Geology At Indiana University A Position He Held Until 1891 Though He Was Absent On Leave For Several Years. He Was Chair Of The Departments Of Botany And Geology At Indiana University And Later At Stanford University. In 1886 He Was Elected As A Member To The American Philosophical Society. In 1887 He Was Appointed State Geologist Of The Geological Survey Of Arkansas. As State Geologist He Discovered Important Bauxite Deposits And He Exposed Gold-Mining Swindles Then Operating In Arkansas For Which The Citizens Of Bear City Arkansas Burned Him In Effigy And The Stock Promoters Tried To Have Him Fired. In 1891 He Was Appointed Professor And Chair Of The Department Of Geology At The Newly Opened Stanford University Recruited By His Colleague From Cornell And Indiana Stanford President David Starr Jordan. He Served As President Of The Geological Society Of America In 1904. He Was President Of The Seismological Society Of America In 1911. When Jordan Retired As President Of Stanford In 1913 Branner Was Elected President Of The University. He Retired January 1 1916 Due To An Age Limit Established By The University And Was Named President Emeritus. While At Stanford He Directed The Agassiz-Branner Expedition To Brazil In 1899 And A Second Similar Expedition In 1907-1908. He Served On Government Commissions Studying The Panama Canal And The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He Published A Grammar Of The Portuguese Language Based On His Work In Brazil Which Went To Multiple Editions. In 1913 He Contributed To Genealogical Research Of The Shenandoah Valley By Privately Publishing Casper Branner Of Virginia And His Descendants A 453-Page Work <br/> <br/> American Society Of Civil Engineers paperback

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