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Letter, 12 September 1876
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CA MUA MG 1022-2-1-103-0009
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12 September 1876 (Creation)
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- Hawes, George W. (George Wesson), 1848-1882
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- New Haven (Conn.)
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(1848-1882)
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George Wesson Hawes was born on December 31, 1848, in Marion, Indiana.
He was an American geologist, educator, and author. He was educated at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College and also at the University of Bonn and Heidelberg, Germany (PhD., 1880). He devoted himself with zeal and success to the part of geology known as lithology, making original microscopic investigations, and publishing many papers in scientific journals. He was engaged in the geological survey of New Hampshire and was a professor at the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven. In 1881, he was appointed curator of the National Museum in Washington, the position he held till his death. There he gathered a most extensive collection of all the building stones in the United States.
He died on June 22, 1882, in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
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Letter from George W. Hawes to John William Dawson, written from New Haven.