- Loring Woart Bailey
Loring Woart Bailey, (
28 September 1839 –10 January 1925 ) was a geologist and university professor. He was born atWest Point, New York , the son of a professor at the academy. He received a good education which was reinforced at home through interaction with his father and other academics. He studied at bothHarvard University andBrown University and became a professor of chemistry and natural sciences at theUniversity of New Brunswick .Bailey had a 46 year teaching career at the University as well as much notable research in geology and in 1899
William Francis Ganong , a naturalist friend, named a mountain inNew Brunswick after him.In retirement, he pursued research in biology with a new enthusiasm and published scientific research on
diatoms which was widely regarded. He published over 100 scientific works in his lifetime, a number of whish were major works.His son
Alfred Bailey was an important poet and academic.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7891 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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