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SAMUEL FRANKLIN EMMONS
1841-1911
Founding member. President 1883. Honorary member 1902
Geologist Graduate, Harvard
College 1861, Ecole des Mines, Paris, Bargakademie, Freiberg,
Germany Member of the
scientific corps of Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the
Fortieth Parallel Geologist in charge
of the Rocky Mountain Division, U.S. Geological Survey Author of classic
reports on the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada and the
Leadville District, Colorado Three fossils named
for Emmons
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
Additional Reading
Hague, Arnold,
1912, Biographical Memoir of Samuel Franklin Emmons 1841-1911:
National Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, part of Volume VII, p.
309-334, 1 fig. |
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