Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Charles R. Van Hise
Born: May 29, 1857
Died: November 19, 1918 (aged 61)
Bio: Charles Richard Van Hise was an American geologist, academic and progressive. He served as president of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1903 to 1918.
Known for:
- A Treatise on Metamorphism (1904)
- Conservation of our natural resources
- Pre-Cambrian Geology of North America







