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About Loring Woart Bailey
- Loring Woart Bailey, (28 September 1839 – 10 January 1925) was a geologist and university professor.
- He was born at West Point, New York, the son of a professor at the academy.
- He received a good education which was reinforced at home through interaction with his father and other academics.
- He studied at both Harvard University and Brown University and became a professor of chemistry and natural sciences at the University of New Brunswick. Bailey had a 46 year teaching career at the University as well as much notable research in geology and in 1899 William Francis Ganong, a naturalist friend, named a mountain in New Brunswick after him.
- In retirement, he pursued research in biology with a new enthusiasm and published scientific research on diatoms which was widely regarded.
- He published over 100 scientific works in his lifetime, a number of whish were major works. His son Alfred Bailey was an important poet and academic.
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