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(f ks) (KEY) , 1908–99, English geologist and explorer, b. Kent, educated at Cambridge. He was a geologist on expeditions to Greenland (1929) and to...
1843–1918, American geologist, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Univ. of Rochester, 1862. When the U.S. Geological Survey was created in the Dept. of the I...
(b rnhär´d s v r ´n s) (KEY) , or Bernhard Varen (b rn´härt fä´r n) (KEY) , 1622–50, Dutch geographer. He studied to be a physician, but ins...
1834–1902, American geologist and ethnologist, b. Mt. Morris (now part of New York City). The family moved to Illinois, where Powell joined the Natu...
(d lä b sh, d l b sh´) (KEY) , 1796–1855, English geologist. As a result of his private undertaking to prepare a geological map of England, the B...
1872–1942, American historian, b. Trenton, N.J. He worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and th...