Word: guyot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the late Professor Agassiz had been several years in America he induced his friend and co-worker in Switzerland, Professor Arnold Guyot, to leave his country and settle in the United States. This he did and at first lived here in Cambridge. He first attracted public attention by a series of lectures which he delivered in Boston in 1848. These were spoken in French and were translated for the papers by Professor (afterwards president) Cornelius Felton, under Guyot's personal supervision. Later Guyot's went to Princeton where he has remained for thirty years...
...Arnold Guyot, Senior Professor of Geology and Physical Geography at Princeton, and distinguished for his scientific researches, is very ill. He is an old man and it is feared that he may not recover...
...seniors at Princeton have taken up physical geography, under the instruction of Prof. Guyot...