Ralph Stockman Tarr
Ralph Stockman Tarr (January 15, 1864 – March 21, 1912) was an American geographer.
Biography[edit]
He was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, where he graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1891, and worked as an assistant in geology from 1890 to 1891.[1] Beginning in 1892, he served as assistant in geology at Cornell, where he became professor of dynamic geology and physical geography from 1897 until his death.[2]
He was Assistant United States Fish Commissioner 1882-3 while he was connected with the Smithsonian Institution, and Assistant Geologist for the Texas Geological Survey in 1888 and 1891.[2] He was in charge of the 1896 Cornell expedition to Greenland largely to study glaciology while being attached to the Peary expedition's goal to retrieve a large iron meteorite.[3][4] He also served as president of the Association of American Geographers in 1911-1912.
Writings[edit]
Besides acting as associate editor of the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society and the Journal of Geography, he published:
- Economic Geology of the United States (1893)
- Economic Geology of the United States (1898)
- Physical Geography of New York State (1902)
- New Physical Geography (1903)
- Geography of Science (1905), with C. A. McMurry
Two posthumous publications were published: College Physiography (1914) and Alaskan Glacier Studies (1914), with Lawrence Martin.
References[edit]
- ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ a b "PROF. RALPH S. TARR, GEOGRAPHER, IS DEAD". NY Times. March 22, 1912.
- ^ The Cornell Expedition to Greenland
- ^ Ralph Stockman Tarr obituary from journals.cambridge.org
External links[edit]
Works by or about Ralph Stockman Tarr at Wikisource
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