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RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )

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RUSSELL, See also:
ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)
ISRAEL See also:
COOK
COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)
COOK (1852- ) , See also:

AMERICAN

American geologist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Garrattsville, New See also:

York, on the loth of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1852. He graduated at New York University in 1872, and later studied at the School of Mines, See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia, where he was Assistant See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology from 1875-77. He was assistant Geologist on the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical and See also:

GEOLOGICAL

Geological Surveys in 1878, and in 188o became attached to the Geological Survey of the United States. In 1892 he was appointed professor of geology in the university of See also:

Michigan. His publications include See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch of the Geological See also:

HISTORY

History of See also:

Lake Lahontan (1885); The See also:

Newark See also:

SYSTEM

System (Bulletin No. 85 U.S. Geol. Survey, 1892) ; See also:

PRESENT

Present and See also:

EXTINCT

Extinct Lakes of See also:

Nevada (1896) ; Glaciers of See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America (1897) ; Volcanoes of North America (1897); Glaciers of See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Rainier (See also:

Ann. See also:

REP, REPP, or REPS

Rep. U.S. Geol. Survey, 1898); and North America (1900).

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