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Show Herbert E. Gregory Award be a scientist of international renown. This incident is men tioned only because it is typical of the 'way, year after year, in which he persistently applied himself to tracing strata, following canyons and working: out the physiography of the region. to ... This man was born in Middleville, Michigan, October IS, 1869. He took his A. B. degree at Yale in 1896 and his Ph. D. in 1899. He was married to Edna Earle of South _ Hope Carolina, June 30, 1908, (second marriage). Charleston, Yale University employed him as assistant in bioloqy from 1896 to 1898, as instructor in Physical Geography from J 898 to 1901, and as assistant professor of Physiography from 1901 to 190'4, at which time he was made Silliman Professor of Geology, a position which he held until his emeritus retirement in 1936. N ear the close £ World War I, he, as chairman of the of Pacific. investigations of the National Research council, worked out aa. international plan for the study of the Pacific, in which many of the nations bordering that ocean were to participate: U. S., Canada, Australia, Japan, Mexico and others. In 1919, he was made Chairman of the International Commission for the study 'of the Pacific and Director of the Bishop Museum at Honolulu which he used, as headquarters for the Commission. From then until 1936, he directed the in tern a tiona 1 investigations of the Pacific with access to practically all the funds he cared to use. committee .... During all these years,' he had never lost contact with his studies of southern Utah geography and geology which he initiated in his early manhood. Two important papers of this region, pub lished in 1916 and 1917, dealt with the geology of the Navaho Country in southeastern Arizona. Since then, he has made inten sive studies acrosss the south end of the state from San Juan country on the east to Nevada line on the west. In order to carry on this work, he has spent .most of his summers in southern Utah, leaving his Pacific investigations _in the hands of trained subordin .... .... , ... ates. During these summers, he cntered his attention successively upon the Navaho Country, the San Juan Country, the Kaiparowits Plateau Region, the Zion Canyon, the Bryce Canyon and Cedar Breaks areas. His treatment of the areal studies has been so scholarly and yet so plain and simple that the layman can read and understand most of it. It has been so important in the National Park areas at Grand, Zion and Bryce Canyons that the National Park .Service has utilized much of his material in the preparation of the National Park bulletins for use of tourists visiting the parks. xxii |
