Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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