William Otis Crosby

William Otis Crosby (born January 14, 1850 in Decatur , Byrd Township (Ohio) , † 1925 ) was an American geologist .

Life

He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduated in 1876 and was initially an assistant. From 1880 he was an instructor, in 1883 he became an associate professor for mineralogy and lithology. From 1875 he was at the Boston Museum of Natural History. He was associated with MIT for 45 years.

In 1881 Crosby was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge , Massachusetts.

Publications

Native Bitumens and the Pitch Lake of Trinidad . 1879
Common Minerals and Rocks . Boston, 1881

literature

Alfred C. Lane: William Otis Crosby (1850-1925). In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Vol. 64, No. October 12, 1930, pp. 518-526 ( JSTOR 20026294 )

Web links

Manuscript collection (PDF; 29 kB) at MIT

Individual evidence

^ Crosby, William Otis . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 18 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850-1899 . (PDF; 50 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)

personal data
SURNAME	Crosby, William Otis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Decatur , Byrd Township (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH	1925

[1] Crosby, William Otis . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 18 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850-1899 . (PDF; 50 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)