. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. rt,and was also a Director in sev-eral banks and railroads, aswell as a Trustee of PrincetonUniversity, and the TheologicalSeminary. Dr. Libbey has been Profes-sor of Physical Geography andDirector of the E. M. Museum ofGeology and Archaeology since1883, in Princeton is a graduate of the Univers-ity, where he took the A. in 1877, and was giventhe A. M. and Sc. D. degrees twoyears later. He becam
. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. rt,and was also a Director in sev-eral banks and railroads, aswell as a Trustee of PrincetonUniversity, and the TheologicalSeminary. Dr. Libbey has been Profes-sor of Physical Geography andDirector of the E. M. Museum ofGeology and Archaeology since1883, in Princeton is a graduate of the Univers-ity, where he took the A. in 1877, and was giventhe A. M. and Sc. D. degrees twoyears later. He became Assistant Professor of Physical Geography in 1880,and of Histology in 1883, but resigned from the latter in 1902. His scien-tific work has consisted largely in exploration, in connection with which in-vestigations have been carried on in every State in the Union, Alaska,Mexico, Hawaii, Cuba, Greenland and Syria. For four years he had chargeof the physical work of the U. S. Fish Commission, in the study of the GulfStream, and demonstrated its relations to the Labrador current; incident-ally as a result of this work the tile fish was rediscovered, and its mysteri- ^ j4*!;. 324 Libbey ous disappearance accounted for. In recognition of tliis work Sir JolinMurray named one of the deeper areas of tlie Atlantic, Libbey Deep, in hishonor, and he was made Vice President of tlie International GeographicalCongress of 1896 m London. His study of the volcano of Kilauea, re-sulted in the discovery of the presence of hydrogen and other elements asgases accompanying the eruptions in Halemaumau. In recognition of anaddress before the British Association for the Advancement of Science up-on the subject of the distribution of earthquakes Prof. John Milne gave thename of Libbey Zone to the belt of earthquake activity which surroundsthe globe. Dr. Libbey has taken a deep interest in the National (iuard of theState; and from 1900 to 1906 was Captain of Company L of the SecondRegiment. In the latte
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