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Salisbury (ROLLIN D an American educator)

ROLLIN D., an American educator, born at Spring Prairie, Wis., in 1858.

He graduated from Beloit College in 1881 and was on the faculty of that institution as professor of biology and geology from 1884 to 1891. He was professor of general and geographic geology at the University of Wisconsin in 1891-2. In the latter year he went to the University of Chicago, where in 1899 of the Ogden School of Science, and in 1903 head of the department of geography. He also served as assistant United States geologist, from 1882 to 1894. From 1919 he was head of the department of geology at the University of Chicago.

His writings include "The Physical Geography of New Jersey" (1898); "The Elements of Geography" (1912); and " Geology" (1914).