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DR. WALDEMAR THEODORE SCHALLER, chief mineralogist of the United States Geological Survey, an authority on rare and unusual minerals, has been awarded the Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America “for meritorious achievement in mineralogy and allied sciences”. This Medal, awarded for the first time in 1937, was established in honour of the late Colonel Washington A. Roebling of Trenton, N.J., whose private collection in the field of mineralogy, now forming part of the display at the United States National Museum, contained some 16,000 specimens, many of them very rare, and was one of the most complete in the country. Colonel Roebling's interest in the growth of the Mineralogical Society led him to create an endowment fund to provide a wider scope in mineralogical publication. The medal commemorates his lifelong concern with mineralogy.
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Mineralogical Society of America: Roebling Medal. Nature 142, 1115 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421115c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421115c0