Henry Garber Hanks
1826–1907
American mineralogist. Established Pacific Chemical Works in California, 1866. State mineralogist of California in 1880–6. Established the state mining bureau. President of the California State Geological Society, 1877.
Sources
DAR 229: 56
Elliot 1979
Bibliography
Elliot, Clark A. 1979. Biographical dictionary of American science: the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press.
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