. The Canadian field-naturalist. srs^s. The Canadian Field-Naturalist VOL. LIU OTTAWA, CANADA, SEPTEMBER, 1939 No. 6 ARTHUR PHILEMON COLEMAN 1SS2 - 1339 Professor A. P. Coleman, who died in Toronto on February 26th, 1939, was a naturalist, artist, traveller and alpinist, as well as one of the world's greatest geologists. Professor Coleman was born at Lachute, Quebec, on April 4, 1852, the son of Rev. Francis Coleman, a Methodist minister. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. He grad- uated from Victoria University, Cobourg, in 18
. The Canadian field-naturalist. srs^s. The Canadian Field-Naturalist VOL. LIU OTTAWA, CANADA, SEPTEMBER, 1939 No. 6 ARTHUR PHILEMON COLEMAN 1SS2 - 1339 Professor A. P. Coleman, who died in Toronto on February 26th, 1939, was a naturalist, artist, traveller and alpinist, as well as one of the world's greatest geologists. Professor Coleman was born at Lachute, Quebec, on April 4, 1852, the son of Rev. Francis Coleman, a Methodist minister. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. He grad- uated from Victoria University, Cobourg, in 1876 as a Bachelor in Arts with the gold medal established by Queen Victoria for general pro- ficiency. In 1881 he received the degree of Doc- tor of Philosophy from the University of Breslau, Germany. In 1882 Dr. Coleman was appointed Professor of Natural History in his Alma Mater. This position he held until Victoria moved to Toronto and became one of the federated colleges in the University of Toronto. In 1891 he was appointed Professor of Assaying and Metallurgy in the School of Practical Science and after ten years in this position was made Professor of Geology and head of the Department in the University, which position he held until he re- tired in 1922 at the age of seventy. From 1919 until his retirement, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and from 1914 as Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology. Although Dr. Coleman's early geological work was largely concerned with economic and Pre- cambrian geology, he later became a world authority on glacial geology. His studies in this field led to the pubHcation in 1926 of his book. Ice Ages, Recent and Ancient. His inter- pretation of the interglacial deposits at Toronto earned him world-wide recognition. In pursuit of evidences of glaciation in different parts of the world, he travelled widely and even after his eightieth birthday visited the high Andes in Colombia, the great mountains of southern Mexico and the h
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