Herbert Hoover: A Geologist in Training

摘要

Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States, was a highly successful geologist and mining engineer before entering the world of politics. He came to Stanford University in 1891, a member of its first class and one of the first graduates with a degree in geology. Recently, Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections came to hold the only known manuscript copy of a map made by him during this time. This article relates the story of the acquisition of the map, Hoover's time as a geology student, and the beginnings of the Stanford Geological Survey.