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Albert Herbert
Koschmann
1896-1962
President 1948, 1949. Honorary member 1956
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Geologist
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Educated University of
Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Yale University
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Associate Professor,
Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanic Arts College; Chairman of Department
of Geology, New Mexico School of Mines; Geologist, U.S. Geological
Survey, was Rocky Mountain Supervisor for the Mineral Deposits Branch
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Fellow, Mineralogical
Society of America, Society Economic Geologists, Geological Society of
America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Geophysical
Union, Geological Society of Washington, Colorado Mining Association;
Sec., Rocky Mountain Section, GSA
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Studied ore deposits at
Cripple Creek and Kokomo in Colorado; Magdalena Mining District, New
Mexico; and at Santo Domingo
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Koschmann was the moving
force in reviving the almost inactive Colorado Scientific Society after
World War II; he received, posthumously, the Distinguished Service Medal
of the Department of the Interior
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Was an avid gardener.
Was an authority on wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
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