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Huntington (ELLSWORTH an American)

ELLSWORTH, an American scientist and explorer; born in Galesburg, Ill., in 1876. He graduated from Beloit College in 1897 and afterward took post-graduate courses at Har- HUNTSVILLE vard. He carried on explorations in Turkey and Mesopotamia from 1897 to 1901. In 1903 and 1904 he was research assistant for the Car Carnegie Institute in Russian Turkestan. This was followed by explorations in Chinese Turkestan, India, China, and Siberia.

He was instructor of geography at Yale from 1907 to 1910, assistant professor from 1910 to 1915, and research associate from 1917. He was a member of many geographical and scientific societies. He was the author of "Explorations in Turkestan" (1905); "The Pulse of Asia" (1907); "Palestine and Its Transformation" (1911); "Civilization and Climate" (1915); "Red Man's Continent" (1919).