The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-02
BARTON
RETURNS
Comes With a Party
to Study Our
Craters.

Prof George Hunt Barton, the emil
nent geologist of the United States, ac-
companied by party of ten teachers
from Boston, arrived on the Aorangi
last night and will spend month in
the islands exploring the extinct vol
canoes on this island, Haleakala on
Maui and Kilauea and Mauna Loa on
Hawaii.
This is not Prof. Bartons first visit
to Hawaii. for from 1881 to 1883 he was
an assistant in the Hawaiian Govern
Inent survey office under Prof w. ID.
Alexander and obtained an intimate
knowledge of the geology of the islands.
He is now the head of the Institute
of Technology of Boston, and his party
is made up OF teachers OF the East who
are students in the Institute. Once
year the professor heads an exploration
party into some mountainous section OF
the country, and the present trip is the
longest they have vet undertaken.
Prof Barton said last evening at the
Hawaiian Hotel:
I'VE have summer school known as
the Teachers School OF Science in Bos-
ton where | give instruction to teachers
during the winter, spring and autumn
where, but this is the first time a party
of us has travelled such long distance
to seek the knowledge we desire. We
are here to see volcanic action if pos
sible. We are going to study first the
Oldest OF the extinct volcanoes which are
on the island of Oahu, then we will go
to Maui to study Haleakala, which is
not so old crater as those on Oahu,
II. L
possibly Mauna Loa to witness living
volcano. OF course | know all these
thoroughly.
Il believe the volcanoes of the Hawai-
ian Islands are the best to study, be-
cause they are of various ages and are
in close proximity.
Our researches have taken us to Nova
Scotia for general geological work. We
have also been across the continent to
the Yellowstone Park and the Canadian
Rockies"
Prof. Barton was born at Sudbury,
Mass, July 8, 1852, and lived there on
farm until twenty-one years of age.
He studied at the Warren Scientific Aca-
denny at Worburn, Mass, from 1874 to
1876, and graduated from the Massachu
sets Institute of Technology in 1880.
In 1881 and 1882 he was an assistant on
the Hawaiian government survey. He
holds the chair of biology in the Boston
University, and has been an assistant in
United States geological work. As head
of the Institute of Technology at Boston
he exercises wide scientific influence.
In 1896 Prof. Barton accompanied
Lieut.. Peary on his sixth expedition
into the Arctic regions, and left the party
about half way on that journey He re-
mained in Greenland some time collecting |
geological data, taking many photo
graphs, from which he has made large
number of valuable lantern slides. 1t
is possible that Prof. Barton may be
induced to deliver a lecture here on his
Arctic travels as he has the slides with
him.
He is member of the Boston Society
of Natural History, National Geological
Society, Geological Society of America,
Boston Scientific Society, Arctic Club
National Forestry Association, Massa
chusetts Forestry Association, president
of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He
is the author of Outline OF Elementary
Lithology," Structural Geology and
other. scientific treatises.