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Died. Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose Jr., 67, famed geologist, brother of the late U. S. Senator Boies Penrose; of chronic nephritis and arteriosclerosis; in Philadelphia...
Ledoux, who studied under Woodberry at Columbia, as did the donor of the room, has written a book on Japan, and in addition to his interest in poetry is prominent as a geologist. His lecture was given under the Morris Gray fund, being the last of the year's talks to be given in that connection. The speaker went on to illustrate the enthusiasm with which Woodberry inspired his pupils, and the devotion with which he followed their literary careers, by reading several of the letters which the well-known poet and critic wrote to young men on the threshold...
...Harvard Geological Conference will hold a joint meeting with the Boston Geological Society this evening, at which S. F. Kelly will speak on "Geophysics as a New Tool for the Geologist." After the dinner at the Faculty Club, Kelly will lecture to the members of the conference in the Mineralogical lecture room...
...Michigan. Professor Russell G. Hussey, geologist at the University of Michigan, dug up some whale bones in Michigan. The big animal had died sometime in the Pleistocene period, the great ice age of 550,000 years ago. The discovery interested Dr. Remington Kellogg, whale authority of the National Museum, Washington. Because early whale bones have been found up the St. Lawrence River near Lake Ontario, scientists have thought that the St. Lawrence region was once a part of the ocean. The new discovery extends this old-time ocean inlet even farther, taking in the entire Great Lakes region. Said...
Here is the geologist's view of history, told from his adventures among the tracks of prehistoric man and animals left on rooks and in river beds...