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ISRAEL COOK RUSSELL (1852- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISRAEL See also:COOK See also:RUSSELL (1852- )  , See also:American geologist, was See also:born at Garrattsville, New See also:York, on the loth of See also:December 1852 . He graduated at New York University in 1872, and later studied at the School of Mines, See also:Columbia, where he was Assistant See also:professor of See also:geology from 1875-77 . He was assistant Geologist on the See also:United States See also:Geographical and See also:Geological Surveys in 1878, and in 188o became attached to the Geological Survey of the United States . In 1892 he was appointed professor of geology in the university of See also:Michigan . His publications include See also:Sketch of the Geological See also:History of See also:Lake Lahontan (1885); The See also:Newark See also:System (Bulletin No . 85 U.S . Geol . Survey, 1892) ; See also:Present and See also:Extinct Lakes of See also:Nevada (1896) ; Glaciers of See also:North See also:America (1897) ; Volcanoes of North America (1897); Glaciers of See also:Mount Rainier (See also:Ann . See also:Rep . U.S . Geol . Survey, 1898); and North America (1900) .

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