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Wound up with a flourish in Washington last week was the 16th International Geological Congress: an eight-day series of conferences which was only one phase of an elaborate, expensive scientific party attended by 500 geologists from 25 nations. Nominally their host was the U. S. Geological Survey. Actually their host was a fellow geologist-far richer than the general run of scientists and dead two years...
...course for his Rustless Iron, he is now in a fair way to becoming dominant power in the sturdy young stainless steel business. His chief Rustless lieutenant on the technical side is Dr. John Otho Downey, a bright-eyed gentleman who until the War was a physician, then turned geologist, later economist, and now at 50 is studying...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and Donald H. McLaughlin, President of the Geological Society of Boston, will welcome the National Geological Society to its first meeting at Harvard. At the evening session, Waldemar Lindgren, head of the Geology Department at M. I. T., and considered the foremost economic geologist in the world, will address the society, and extend the welcome of the Institute...
...Jenks had arranged with the Minnesota State Highway Commission, which was putting a road through Ottertail County, to watch for fossils. Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss. Year and a half ago at a dinner in Chicago, some potent businessmen heard Geologist Arthur Keith of the National Research Council and other scholars ask that lay diggers keep their eyes peeled. Instructions were sent out, with the result that Science now has the intelligent co-operation of thousands of railroad engineers, highway contractors, building excavators, brick makers, stone quarriers...
...Rome, Professor Ugo Mondello Italian geologist, predicted: "We can expect another continent to rise up out of the earth in the South Atlantic Ocean as ; sequel to the recent volcanic disturbance in South America...