John Ruggles Cotting papers, circa 1957-1958.

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John Ruggles Cotting papers, circa 1957-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319709054

The collection consists of biographical information on John Ruggles Cotting, mostly in the form of Ms notes taken by S. W. Geiser.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331727

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Cotting, John Ruggles, 1783-1867

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Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983

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John Ruggles Cotting (1778-1867) was a Congregationalist minister and geologist, and was appointed first Georgia State Geologist by Governor Gilmer in 1936-1940. "Samuel Wood Geiser, biologist and historian of science, son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, was born at Independence, Iowa, on June 11, 1890. He attended Upper Iowa University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a master's degree in 1919, and Johns Hopkins University, where he was...