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...them among the 9,500 names in American Men of Science. The League might well have mentioned, for instance, Margaret F. Washburn (president of the American Psychological Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several...
...killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year to go on with the campaign, which has already secured more than $50,000; and that the Associated Harvard Clubs establish an employment service with a central clearing house in New York...
Professor Wolff began his teaching service at the University in 1881, nearly 42 years ago, studied a year in Germany, was for some years an assistant geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey, and has taught at the University since...
...topography of the moon's surface, which consists mainly of innumerable crater-like circles and arcs varying in size from several hundred miles across to less than is telescopically visible, is explained on a somewhat new theory by Colonel John Millis, army engineer and geologist, writing in Popular Astronomy. Rejecting the theory that the moon's features could be the product of volcanic action, he believes that the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation. If, then, meteors fell into the moon while the crust was cooling, they would penetrate the surface...
...Popocatepetl is due for another eruption in a year's time, greater than any which have yet taken place." So says Professor Atl, celebrated Mexican geologist, whose prediction of an eruption in 1920 was fulfilled...