Word: mineralogists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the heart of the Congo plunge four white men in search of legendary Mt. Nagala. All four men are searching for something: Samuel for a brilliant friend who once started for Nagala and was never heard from again; Marius, the mineralogist, for rare metals; Joshua, the entomologist, for rare insects; Alessandro, the anthropologist, for "secret gods...
Actually, the stuff is pretty easy to find. A just-published booklet (Handbook oj Uranium Minerals by Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake, Mineralogist Publishing Co., Portland, Ore., $1.50) makes it sound as if anyone could go prospecting...
...Biosphere. Vernadsky began as a mineralogist, soon enlarged his studies to embrace the whole "biosphere," which he denned as the area where life exists-from about two miles underground to the top of the atmosphere. He liked to put man in his place by pointing out that "living matter, by weight, constitutes an insignificant part of our planet" (roughly one-quarter of 1%), and that if all human beings were collected in one place they would occupy an area not quite as large as Switzerland's Lake Constance...
Retirement of Professor Charles Palache, noted mineralogist who has been at Harvard since 1895, was announced by the University yesterday. He has been appointed professor of Mineralogy, emeritus, effective next September...