Henry Smith Munroe

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Henry Smith Munroe (1850 – 1933) was an American geologist who worked in Japan. He was born in Brooklyn and obtained a Masters of Engineering at Columbia University in 1869. From 1870 to 1871 Munroe was Assistant Geologist with the Ohio State Geological Survey. Between 1870 and 1872 he occupied the post of Assistant Chemist at the United States Department of Agriculture. Between 1872 and 1875 he was in Yesso (now Hokkaidō), Japan as Assistant Geologist and Mining Engineer with the Geological Survey of Yesso. He then became a professor of Geology and Mining at the University of Tokyo between 1875 and 1876.

He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1877, where he subsequently became Adjunct Professor of Mining until 1891. He was Professor of Mining at Columbia from 1891 until 1915. From 1897 to 1899 he was Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Columbia University. In 1917 he became Consulting Engineer to the United States Bureau of Mines.

On 4 May 1933 Munroe died at home in Litchfield, Connecticut.

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