Andrew C. Lawson, Scientist, Teacher, Philosopher

Book Description

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970 First edition. 474pp. Frontis portrait, 12 full page illustrations from photographs, facsimile letters. Gilt-lettered blue cloth. Bookplate, else a fine copy. Biography of this Berkeley professor by one of his former students. Lawson was an important researcher in the fields of mining and geology whose published works cover the geology of numerous California regions and parts of Canada and the Great Lakes. Lawson exerted a strong influence on a large number of this country's and the world's foremost geologists. A complete bibliography of Lawson's writings is included. [Clark and Brunet I: 260; Clark and Brunet II: 290]..

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