He opens chatting about being near the equator while PA is approaching Winter, then about getting to Colomba the next day. He asks if they've heard about the activities of the German cruiser, Emden (calling it a modern 'Alabama' - the Confederate raider). They'd been watching its movements and seeing it was only around Southern India, the Moldavia was going 100 miles out of the regular course and turning off all ship's lights after 8:30pm to avoid international complications. He goes on to talk about India, and that it will be hot and he is already taking quinine. They say to be careful of mosquito bites, and everyone has a 'colored' man-servant to look after them, and wondering how long his funds will last. He expects to be in India and Ceylon for 4-6 weeks, then a short time in Egypt, if his money holds out. Then he chats and asks questions about a lot of other Profs and things going on at the school.
Letter consists of envelope and two pages, written on both sides. Pages measure 9x7" and envelope 5 3/4 x 4 1/2". The pages are deeply creased at folds, but the paper isn't dry to the cracking point. Easily unfolded and re-folded.
Elwood S. Moore (August 3, 1879 – March 26, 1966) was a Canadian economic geologist, teacher, and administrator.
Born near Heathcote, Ontario, the son of Benjamin and Hannah (Rorke) Moore, Moore graduated from the University of Toronto in 1904 and taught high school until 1907. In that year, he studied at the University of Chicago as a fellow in geology. He received a master of arts degree in 1908 from the University of Toronto and his doctorate in 1909 from the University of Chicago.[1]
He was a professor of geology and mineralogy at the School of Mines, Pennsylvania State College, before being appointed dean of the School of Mines in 1919. In 1922 he was made professor of economic geology at the University of Toronto and director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Geology. In 1937, he was appointed head of the department of geology and paleontology. He retired in 1949.[1]
He was a charter fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. In 1939, he was president of the Society of Economic Geologists. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was its president from 1945 to 1946, and from 1944 to 1945 he was president of the Royal Canadian Institute.[1]
Moore was an elder member of the Society of Friends (Quaker religion). He supported environmental protection of Toronto's Indian Valley and the Indian Valley Creek.
In 1955, he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by McMaster University.[1]
He was the author of Coal: Its Properties, Analysis, Classification, Geology, Extraction, Uses and Distribution (1922) and Canada's Mineral Resources (Irwin & Gordon, 1929)
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Hugh Davidson Pallister, senior geologist for the Alabama State Geological Survey and a former instructor at Case Institute of Technology, died Monday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was born in old Newburgh 78 years ago. Mr. Pallister's first wife, the former Elizabeth Beavis, also of an old Newburgh family, died in 1919. His second wife, Clara, survives him. He is survived also by two sons, Hugh D., Jr., and John S. Pallisten and two daughters, the Misses Emma and Clara Pallister. Funeral services will be Friday in the chapel of the University of Alabama. Burial will be in Alabama. The family would appreciate contributions to the Case Alumni Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Case Institute of Technology alumni office
From 1910 to 1915, he was assistant professor at Pennsylvania State College. See page 17 at this link for more of a bio:
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