Up for auction a RARE!  "Curator of Paleobotany" David White Hand Written Letter Dated 1908. 

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Charles David White (July 1, 1862 –

February 7, 1935), who normally went by his middle name, was an American geologist, born in Palmyra, New York. He

graduated from Cornell University in

1886, and in 1889 became a member of the United States Geological

Survey. Eventually, he rose to be chief geologist. In 1903 he became

an associate curator of paleobotany at the Smithsonian Institution.

He wrote numerous papers on geological and paleontological subjects. The David White House, his home for 15 years, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

 He made one of the most comprehensive

studies on the Glossopteris Flora,

the main component of the fossil deposits of mineral coal in Brazil.  David White won the Thompson Medal in

1931 and the Walcott Medal in

1934. He was president of the Geological Society of

America in 1923. He "himself considered that his

structure-carbon ratio for the occurrence of oil and gas was his greatest

scientific achievement."