William North Rice
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William North Rice, Ph.D., LL.D. (b. November 21, 1845, Marblehead, Massachusetts - d. 1928) was an American geologist, born at He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1865 and from Yale (Ph.D., 1867). He served as professor of geology at Wesleyan and as acting president there from 1907 - 1909.
Professor Rice wrote:
- Geology of Bermuda (1884)
- Science Teaching in the Schools (1889)
- Twenty-five Years of Scientific Progress and Other Essays (1894)
- Christian Faith in an Age of Science (1903; second edition, 1904)
- Manual of the Geology of Connecticut (1906), with H. E. Gregory
- Problems of American Geology, with others
