California Geological Survey
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The California Geological Survey, previously known as the California Division of Mines and Geology, is the California state geologic agency.
Mount Whitney, the highest peak in California, named after the second State Geologist
William H. Brewer's 1864 field party
Drafting Department, 1905
Josiah Whitney
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Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey. Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regi
California Geological Survey
…a state geological survey. In 1860 the Legislature passed an act creating the Office of State Geologist and defining the duties thereof. The act named Josiah D. Whitney (for whom Mount Whitney is named) to fill the office. A Yale graduate, Whitney had worked on several surveys in the east. The act directed Whitney to…
Portrait of Whitney by Silas Selleck, 1863