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Name
  
Henry Washington


Died
  
1934


Books
  
Manual of the chemical analysis of rocks

Henry Stephens Washington (January 15, 1867 – January 7, 1934) was an American geologist.

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Biography

Washington was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 15, 1867. He was graduated at Yale University in 1886, and took his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in 1893, studying also at the American School for Classical Studies in Athens the capital of Greece. He has conducted an extended series of geological investigations in Greece, Asia Minor, Italy, Spain, Brazil and in the United States, and by 1920 was a consulting mining geologist of high reputation.

Works

His works include:

  • Chemical Analyses of Igneous Rocks (1903)
  • Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks (1904; 2d ed., 1910)
  • The Roman Cogmatic Region (1907)
  • References

    Henry Stephens Washington Wikipedia