Biography Category
(b rnhär´d s v r ´n s) (KEY) , or Bernhard Varen (b rn´härt fä´r n) (KEY) , 1622–50, Dutch geographer. He studied to be a physician, but ins...
1834–1902, American geologist and ethnologist, b. Mt. Morris (now part of New York City). The family moved to Illinois, where Powell joined the Natu...
(d lä b sh, d l b sh´) (KEY) , 1796–1855, English geologist. As a result of his private undertaking to prepare a geological map of England, the B...
1872–1942, American historian, b. Trenton, N.J. He worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and th...
( p´ n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent., Roman historian. He was a Greek, born in Alexandria. He held various offices in Alexandria, was an advocate in Rome, a...
1813–93, Scottish arctic explorer, b. Orkney Islands. A physician in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company in N Canada, Rae made (1846–47) a jo...