Ralph Stockman Tarr

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Ralph Stockman Tarr, S.B. (1864-1912) was an American geographer, born at Gloucester, Massachusetts He was educated at Harvard and he served at Cornell where he became professor in 1897. Besides acting as associate editor of the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society and the Journal of Geography, he published:

  • Economic Geology of the United States (1893)
  • Physical Geography of New York State (1902)
  • New Physical Geography (1903)
  • Geography of Science (1905), with C. A. McMurry

Two posthumous publications were published: College Physiography (1914) and Alaskan Glacier Studies (1914), with Lawrence Martin.