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Smith (HARLAN INGERSOLL an American)

HARLAN INGERSOLL, an American scientist, born at East Saginaw, Mich., 1872. He was educated in the public schools and at the University of Michigan. In 1891 he was an assistant at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. From 1891 to 1893 he was in charge of the anthropological collections in the Museum of of the the University University of Michigan. He became in 1895 connected with the American Museum of Natural History, with which institution he served chiefly in connection with its department of archæology, becoming honorary curator of archæology in 1912. He was archæologist of the Jesup Northern Pacific Expedition and of the Geological Survey of Canada. His archæological explorations, undertaken since 1897, were devoted chiefly to British Columbia, and to other parts of Canada. He was a member of several domestic and foreign anthropological societies and wrote: "Archæology of Lytton" (1899); "Archæology of the Thompson River Religion" (1900); "Cairns of British Columbia and Washington" (1901); "Shell Heaps of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia" (1903); "Archæology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound" (1907); "Archæology of the Yakima Valley, Washington" (1910); "The Prehistoric Ethnology of a Kentucky Site" (1910).