New Book: Cornell’s First Geologist!

We have just received copies of PRI Special Publication No. 61, a biography of Cornell’s first geology professor Charles Frederick Hartt (1840-1878) by William (Bill) Brice (Cornell PhD 1971; Prof. Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown) and Silvia de Mendonça Figueirôa, Professor at Universidade Estaual de Campinas in Brazil. Besides being a geologist and paleontologist, Hartt was an adventurer and explorer, and founded the important but short-lived Geological Survey of Brazil. The PRI collection includes specimens that Hartt collected in Canada, the US, and Brazil. Bill is also the author of a biography of PRI founder Gilbert Harris, which we published in Bulletins of American Paleontology in 1996, as well as a history of the Cornell geology department (now Earth & Atmospheric Sciences).

You can get your own copy by visiting the Museum of the Earth or looking online at: https://pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/products/cornellgeologist

Pencil drawing of a man's face with a red text title "Cornell's First Geologist". Beneath the face is a grey box with text "Charles Frederick Hartt" in bold and beneath that "Explorer Geologist in North and South America".

Cover of  Cornell's First Geologist: Charles Frederick Hartt. by William R. Brice Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa (2024). Photo by PRI.

 
 
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