Background
Harris, Gilbert Dennison was born on October 2, 1864 in Jamestown, New York, United States. Son of Francis E. and Lydia Helen (Crandall) Harris.
Harris, Gilbert Dennison was born on October 2, 1864 in Jamestown, New York, United States. Son of Francis E. and Lydia Helen (Crandall) Harris.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1886.
Stoneman. On United States, Texas and Arkansas geological surveys, 1887-1893. Investigated tertiary deposits of Southern England and Northern France, 1894. Assistant professor paleontology and strategraphic geology, 1894-1909, professor, 1909-1935, now emeritus, Cornell.
Founder Paleontological Research Institution, 1932.
State geologist of Louisiana, 1899-1909. Editor and proprietor Bulls. of America Paleontology, since 1895, and of Paleontographica Americana.
Consulting geologist, Trinidad Petroleum Development Company, Trinidad, British West Indies California California, 1919-1923. Paleontologist to Standard Oil Corporation of Venezuela, 1923-1925.
Visiting graduate lecturer in Geology, Texas State University, 1927.
Paleontologist to the Oldenbergische Erdölgesellschaft, Germany, 1929.
Fellow Geological Society American (vice president 1937). Member Societe Geologique de France, Palaeontologische Gesellschaft v. Deutschland, Societe geologique de Suisse, Academy National Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Clara Stoneman, December 30, 1890.