Henry Gannett, S.B. '69, died at his home in Washington, D. C., after a long illness. He was born at Bath, Me., in 1840, and graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1869. From shortly after his graduation until 1878 he was associated with F. V. Hayden, the explorer, with whom he traveled through the Yellowstone region, and parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, which at that time were practically unknown.
After his return to the East he became identified with the United States Geological Survey, on which he was chief geographer until 1902. He was the first secretary, and later president, of the National Geographic Society. He was geographer of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth censuses, and assistant director of the Philippine census in 1902 and of the Cuban census in 1907. He wrote numerous scientific works, chiefly on geographical subjects.
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