Prof. J. C. Branner

Abstract

PROF. JOHN CASPER BRANNER, president emeritus of Stanford University, California, died at Palo Alto, California, on March i, in his seventy-second year. He was a geologist of stimulating activity, and was attracted to Brazil as a young man in 1874 through his master at Cornell, C. F. Hartt. In 1875 he succeeded Hartt as director of the Imperial Geological Commission in Brazil, and, on the establishment of the republic, continued his observations in that country on various expeditions from time to time. In 1885 he was appointed professor of geology in Indiana University, and in 1892 to the similar post in the newly founded Stanford University. He won a considerable position as an economic botanist, and his geological papers cover a wide and practical field. His “Outlines of the Geology of Brazil,” the second edition of which was published in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America as recently as 1920, has been noticed in NATURE, vol. 106, p. 58. This very useful summary includes a geological map of the whole country on the scale of i: 5,000,000.