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Garnier, Julien.
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Julien, Alexis Anastay 1840-
Geologist; born in New York, Feb. 13, 1840; graduated at Union College in 1859, and the following year went as chemist to the guano island of Sombrero, where he studied geology and natural history.
While there he also collected birds and shells and made meteorological observations for the Smithsonian Institution.
Returning to New York in 1864, he soon after became assistant in charge of the quantitative laboratory in the newly founded Columbia School of Mines.
In 1885-97 he had charge of the department of biology in the same institution, and in the latter year became instructor in geology.
In 1875-78 he was connected with the North Carolina Geological Survey.
He is a fellow of the American Geological Society, the Geological Society of America, the American Society of Naturalists, and other organizations, and a past vice-president of the New York Academy of Sciences.