Oliver Cummings Farrington (1864-1934) was an American geologist. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system He was born at Brewer, Maine, and was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) and at Yale University (Ph.D., 1891), where he was tutor in 1890-91. Brewer is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Bangor Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean The University of Maine, established in 1865 is the Flagship University of the University of Maine System. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Betweenm 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of Curator (from Latin cura care means manager overseer. A curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e The Field Museum of Natural History is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Mineralogy is an Earth Science focused around the Chemistry, Crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of Minerals The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of Awards at St. Louis in 1904. The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a World's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St He was the president of the American Association of Museums in 1914-16. The American Association of Museums ( AAM) is a Non-profit association that has been bringing Museums together since its founding in 1906 helping to develop Besides his magazine articles, he was author of:
- Observations of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl (1897)
- Meteorite Studies (1902)
- Gems and Gems Minerals (1903)
- Analyses of Iron Meteorites (1907)
- Analyses of Stone Meteorites (1911)
External links
- Gems and Gemology, March-April 1934 (source for death year)
- Gem and Gem minerals by Oliver Farrington (Full text online version)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain. Popocatépetl (commonly referred to as Popo, El Popo or Don Goyo) (popokaˈtepetɬ is an active Volcano and at 5426 m Iztaccíhuatl (alternative spellings include Ixtaccíhuatl, or either variant spelled without the accent (istakˈsiwatɬ or as spelled with the x, iʃtakˈsiwatɬ Iron Meteorites consist overwhelmingly of Nickel - Iron Alloys The metal taken from these meteorites is known as meteoric iron' and A meteorite is a natural object originating in Outer space that survives an impact with the Earth 's surface The New International Encyclopedia was an English -language encyclopedia first published in the early 1900s The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
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