Geological Survey, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as a founding member of the National Research Council, and as president of the National Academy
This biography of geologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) documents his career and life from birth to his retirement from the US Geological Survey in 19
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