Oliver C. Farrington

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Oliver Cummings Farrington (October 9, 1864 – November 2, 1933) was an American geologist.

Biography

Oliver C. Farrington was born at Brewer, Maine on October 9, 1864, and was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) and at Yale University (Ph.D., 1891), where he was tutor in 1890-91.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict04johnuoft/page/n69/mode/1up |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |volume=IV |editor1-first=Rossiter |editor1-last=Johnson |editor2-first=John Howard |editor2-last=Brown |publisher=American Biographical Society |location=Boston |page= |year=1906 |access-date=2022-03-18 |via=Internet Archive}} Between 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of Awards at St. Louis in 1904. He was the president of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) in 1914–16.

He was elected in 1909 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).{{cite web|title=Historic Fellows|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)|url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic}}

He died in Chicago on November 2, 1933.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51177295/chicago-tribune/ |title=O. C. Farrington, Field Museum Curator, Dies |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |page=30 |date=1933-11-03 |access-date=2022-03-18 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Works

Besides his magazine articles, he was author of:

[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA77 Observations of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl] (1897) (See Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA283 Meteorite Studies—I] (1902); [https://books.google.com/books?id=QpVIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA111 Meteorite Studies—II] (1907); [https://archive.org/details/meteoritestudies38farr Meteorite Studies—III] (1910)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=hOHPAAAAMAAJ Gems and Gems Minerals] (1903)
[https://archive.org/details/analysesofironme35farr Analyses of Iron Meteorites] (1907) (See iron meteorite.)
[https://archive.org/details/AnalysesOfStoneMeteorites/farrington-o-analyses-1911-RTL009552-LowRes/page/n1/mode/2up Analyses of Stone Meteorites] (1911) (See meteorite classification.)