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WITH the death of Dr. Henry Stephens Washington on January 7 at the age of sixty-six years, petrology has suffered the loss of one who, for the past forty years, has worked with distinction and has contributed greatly to the advancement of the science. Henry Stephens Washington was born at Newark, New Jersey, on January 15, 1867, and, after due preparation, he proceeded to Yale where he obtained, in 1886, the degree of B.A. with special honours in natural sciences. After two years of post-graduate work he graduated M.A. in 1888. The next four years were spent in travelling in the West Indies, Europe, Egypt, Algeria and Asia Minor, parts of the four winters and springs being spent in Greece where he became a member of the American School of Classical Studies. In the latter capacity he assisted in and conducted excavations at Plateae, Argos and Phlius. Between 1891 and 1893, Washington studied petrology under Zirkel at the University of Leipzig and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on “The Volcanoes of the Kula Basin in Lydia”. Afterwards he was assistant in mineralogy at Yale for a short time and continued his petrographical researches in Europe and America. From 1906 until 1912 he practised as a consulting mining geologist, and in 1912 he was appointed petrologist to the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, a position which he still held at the time of his death.
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Dr. H. S. Washington. Nature 133, 557–558 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133557a0
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