University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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 gr-0'.'™: ONF: WHO I1AS WORKED AND WON WILLIAM PHIPPS BLAKE, our honored friend who is so fittingly installed in the chair of Geology. Mining and Metallurgy at this institution and whose likeness occurs opposite this page, has followed a career which, to say the least, has been a highly checkered one. It comes to the lot of few men indeed to lead a life so frought with interest and so replete with passages of big things done. We write only a sketch of the outline of his life's work to date, and leave to you the pleasing task of filling in the intercises and expanding the general topics as btst fitted to yourselves. To make you to understand and fully appreciate the beauty and accomplishment of this long life is a task for which we have neither the space nor the ability and our hope is that you might have the opportunity, as has been given to some of us. of sometime pursuing his courses and obtaining therefrom somewhat of the essence of that life, somewhat of the spirit of things done which it breathes and somewhat of the energy and inspiration which must have been his during those years of labor. His preparation for this active career was obtained at Sheffield College. Yale's scientific school, where he received the degree of Ph. B.. and latter at Dartmouth College from which institution he carried away a degree of A. M. His first actual work in the field was commenced when he entered the New York Medical College as assistant chemist in 1852. From this point his course was an ever rising one and we find him climbing with rapid strides to chemist and mineralogist of the New Jersey Zinc Co., and then to the same position on the staff of the United States Pacific Railroad survey corps, in the year ‘55: author and editor of the reports to the government of that survey: editor of a mining magazine and journal of geology from '58 to '60: mining engineer to the Japanese government where he was head of the mining department in the National College during the the years '62 and '63: professor of geology and mining in the College of California in '66: commissioner from California to the Paris Exposition. '67: editor of reports of U. S. commissioner to Paris 67-'71 ; chief of scientific staff of San Domingo commission '71 : commissioner from Conn, to the International Exposition. Philadelphia, and chairman classification committee at that exposition ‘71-'77: commissioner to Vienna Exposition '73: U. S. commissioner to Paris World's Fair '78 and secretary scientific commission: mining engineer ‘79-‘95 and since that date he has been Territorial geologist and director of School of

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 Ta tin Students and Faculty of The Tlniuersitu of Arizona and To all those uilia liaue lined and lowed a college life this bonk is dedicated

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