| LC control no. | n 85219638 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906 |
| Variant(s) | Shaler, N. S. (Nathaniel Southgate), 1841-1906 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Cambridge (Mass.) Lexington (Ky.) |
| Birth date | 1841-02-20 |
| Death date | 1906-04-10 |
| Place of birth | Newport (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Kentucky Geological Survey Harvard University Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Geologists College teachers College administrators |
| Found in | Livingstone, D. N. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the culture of American science, c1987. LC data base, 11/25/85 (hdg.: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906) NUCMC data from Filson Club for His Papers, ca. 1870-1885 (Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906; geologist and scholar; head of Kentucky State Geological Survey, 1873-1879; prof. geol. dept. Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, 1869-1906) Harvard University, Lawrence Scientific School, 1892?: p. 2 (N.S. Shaler, dean) Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 814 (Nathan Southgate Shaler, geologist, born on February 20, 1841 near Newport, Kentucky. Entered Harvard in 1858; graduated in 1862, then returned to Harvard to teach in 1864 and 1868. In late August 1873 he was appointed Kentucky state geologist. Returned to Harvard as a professor of geology in 1884 then became dean of Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School, a position he held for the rest of his life. Wrote geological studies, essays, and plays. Died April 10, 1906 on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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