University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Board of Regents JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D., President HON. ARTHUR HILL I ION. HENRY S. DKAN . HON. LEVI L. BARBOUR HON. FRANK W. FLETCHER HON. HENRY W. CAREY HON. LOYAL E. KNAPPEN HON. PETER WHITE HON. WALTER H. SAWYER Regents-Elect HON. KRAXR li. I.KLAND HON. JUNIUS E. BEAL JAMES H. WADE HARRISON SOULE HON. PATRICK H. KELLEY SAGINAW ANN ARBOR DETROIT Al.PKNA MANISTKK GRAND RAPIDS MARQUETTE HIU.SPALE DETROIT ANN ARBOR SECRETARY TREASURER SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 19

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ISRAEL COOK RUSSELL Late Professor of Geology. Died at Ann Arbor, May I, 1906. Professor Israel Cook Russell was horn near Garratsville, N. Y., Dec. loth, 1852, son of Barnabas and Louisa Sherman (Cook) Rus- sell. His ancestors were early set- tlers in New England. He was fitted for college at the Rural High School, Clinton, N. Y., and lias brook Institute, Jersey City, V I. He entered the University of the City of New York in l86y, and was Graduated Bachelor of Science and Civil Engineer in 1872. He contin- ued his studies at the Columbia School of Mines, and in 1874 went to New Zeeland as a member of the U. S. Transit of Venus Expedition, in which connection he made a jour- nev round the world. In 1875 he was given the degree of Master of Science by the University of New York and in the same year became Assistant Geologist on the United States Geological Survey West of the looth Meridian, and engaged in field work in Colorado and New Mexico. The following year was spent in European travel. Not long after this he became Geologist of the Survey, a position which he held throughout the rest of his life. In 1889 he was sent by the United States Geological Survey on an expedition up the Yukon and Porcupine rivers, Alaska, a journey of about twenty-five hun- dred miles through an almost un- known wilderness. In the next two years he conducted two im- portant expeditions in the region about Mount St. Elias. As a re- sult of his work in the field, he mapped out the geology of the least known portions of many of the Western states. He became an authority not only on glacial but volcanic action, and was sent by the National Geographical Society to Martinique and St. Vincent, to report on the terrible eruptions of Mt. Pelee and La Soufriere. Although he was a quiet, modest, somewhat frail looking man, all who accompanied him on his ex- peditions bear witness to his boundless energy, his tenacity of purpose, his strength and endurance, and his resourcefulness in grappling with the difficulties of the wilderness. Besides more than one hundred scientific reports, papers and monographs of great value, he wrote five books on the lakes, glaciers, volcanoes, rivers, and general geology of North America. Prof. Russell was President of the Geological Society of America, 1906; Vice-President of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, 1004; one of the Board of Directors of the National Geographical Society; President of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, 1902; member of the Congress Geologique Internationale; member of the American Alpine Club, and of the Appala- chian Mountain Club; corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and of the Scottish Geographical Society. He was chairman of the section of Geography, and a speaker in the section of Physiography, at the Congress of Arts and Sciences, at St. Louis, 1904. The degree of Doctor of laws was given to him by his Alma Mater, the University of New York, in 1897. He dieii in Ann Arbor on May first, 1906, and was buried in Forest Hill cemetery. WARREN P. LOMBARD. PROF. RUSSELI.

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