Claim: Frederick Leslie Ransome was an American geologist who was educated at the University of California and helped found the journal Economic Geology in 1905.
Evidence: Frederick Leslie Ransome, Ph.D. (1868–1935) was a British-born American geologist. Ransome was born in Greenwich, England and educated at the University of California (S.B., 1893; Ph.D., 1896). Ransome helped found the journal Economic Geology in 1905, and was associate editor of the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.