Arnold Hague

thumb Arnold Hague (December 3, 1840 – May 14, 1917) was an American geologist and explorer, who did research in the western United States, Guatemala, and northern China. Known for his role in investigating and promoting Yellowstone National Park, he was elected in 1885 to the U.S/ National Academy of Sciences and in 1903 to the American Philosophical Society. Hague served as the president of the Geological Society of America for a one-year term from 1910 to 1911. Quotes Midway between the Sierra Nevada Sierra and the Wasatch Range Wasatch stand the East Humboldt Range East Humboldt Mountains, the most prominent range in the Great Basin. They present, not only by reason of the greater number of rugged and commanding peaks, many of them attaining an elevation over 11,000 feet above sea level, but by their broad, massive proportions, long, unbroken ridges, and Alpine character, the boldest uplift on the Nevada plateau. Next west from the Humboldt occurs the Diamond Mountains (Nevada) Diamond Range, followed by the Pinon Range Piñon Range, with the broad Diamond Valley (Nevada) Diamond Valley lying between them. Southward the southern extremities of these two ranges enter the Eureka County, Nevada Eureka District and form a part of its mountainous region. Geology of the Eureka District, Nevada: With an Atlas Volume 20 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey U.S. Government Printing Office 1892 https://books.google.com/books?id=dJAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2 2–3 (419 pages; Appendix A. Systematic lists of fossils of each geological horizon by Charles Dollittle Walcott; Appendix B. Microscopical petrography of the eruptive rocks by Joseph P. Iddings) A tourist visiting all the prominent geyser basins, hot springs, Yellowstone Lake, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Falls Falls of the Yellowstone, is not likely to come upon any other rock than rhyolite, excepting, of course, deposits from the hot springs, unless he ascends Mount Washburn. Geological History of the Yellowstone National Park U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 https://books.google.com/books?id=700CAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 7 (22 pages; published on behalf of U.S. Geological Survey & U.S. National Park Service) Quotes about Arnold Hague In 1883 Hague was appointed Geologist in charge of the Survey of the Yellowstone National Park and vicinity, and began field-work in August of that year with a large party of assistants, including three assistant geologists—W. H. Weed, G. M. Wright, and Joseph P. Iddings J. P. Iddings—a physicist, William Hallock; a chemist, Frank Austin Gooch F. A. Gooch, a professional photographer, William Henry Jackson W. H. Jackson, and a disbursing clerk, C. D. Davis. Joseph P. Iddings, Biographical Memoir of Arnold Hague 1840-1917 Biographical Memoirs of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences IX 1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=sqsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32 21–38 (quote from p. 32) External links John Clayton, https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/yellowstone-park-arnold-hague-and-birth-national-forests Yellowstone Park, Arnold Hague and the Birth of National Forests Encyclopedia, WyoHistory.org May 26, 2017 Category:1840 births Category:1917 deaths Category:Geologists from the United States Category:Heidelberg University alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Scientists from Boston Category:University of Göttingen alumni Category:Yale University alumni