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Merrill, George Perkins was born on May 31, 1854 in Auburn, Maine, United States. Son of Lucius and Anne Elizabeth (Jones) Merrill.
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Excerpt from Stones: For Building and Decoration The work herewith presented is based upon the author's handbook and catalogue of the collection of building and ornamental stones in the United States National Museum at Washington. It differs from that work, however, in many important particulars, several new chapters having been added, others rewritten and the whole so far as possible brought down to date. A portion of the added matter is essentially the same, though in a somewhat different form, as originally appeared in the columns of Stone, the American Architect, the Scientific American Supplement, and other of our industrial journals. The writer's experience in preparing the extensive collection in the National Museum, at Washington, as well as its partial duplicate in the American Museum in New York City, has afforded him ample opportunity for becoming acquainted with the quarry products of the country at large, while extensive field trips, particularly in the eastern and extreme western United States, have given him a practical insight into the resources of the regions as well as some knowledge concerning the usual methods of quarrying and working. That there is a demand for a comprehensive and not too technical a work on this subject has been emphatically impressed upon the writer many times during the past few years. How far the pages herewith presented shall supply this demand, it is left for the public to decide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Merrill, George Perkins was born on May 31, 1854 in Auburn, Maine, United States. Son of Lucius and Anne Elizabeth (Jones) Merrill.
He was educated at the University of Maine (Bachelor of Science, 1879. Doctor of Philosophy, 1889), took a post-graduate courses of study and was assistant in chemistry at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (1879–1880), and subsequently studied at Johns Hopkins (1886–1887).
Assistant chemist, Wesleyan University, 1879-1880. Assistant in geological department United States National Museum, 1881. Head curator department geology, United States National Museum, since 1897.
Professor geology and mineralogy, George Washington (formerly Columbian) University, 1893-1915.
Expert special agent of 12th Census in stonequarry statistics. Honorary corresponding member American International Assurance J. L. Smith gold medal, National Academy Sciences, for researches in meteorites.
Author: Stones for Building and Decoration, 1891, 1897, 1903. Rocks, Rockweathering and Soils, 1897, 1907.
The Non-Metallic Minerals—Their Occurrence and Uses, 1904, 1910.
Also contributions to a History of American Geology, 1905, and History of American State Geological and Natural History Surveys, 1920. Catalogue and Handbook Meteorite Collection in the United States National Museum, 1915. Handbook of Gems and Precious Stones (with others), 1922.
The First 100 Years of American Geology, 1924.
Home: Washington, Distric.
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Member American International Assurance J. L. Smith gold medal, National Academy Sciences, for researches in meteorites.
Married Sarah P. Farrington, November 1883 (died 1894). Married second, Katherine L. Tancey, 1900.