The New International Encyclopædia/Scott, William Berrymann

SCOTT, William Berrymann (1858—  ). An American geologist, born in Cincinnati, and educated at Princeton (class of 1877) and at the University of Heidelberg. Upon his return to America he was appointed professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton. The Princeton geological expeditions in the West and in Patagonia were under his lead and he made valuable additions to the geological and ornithological collections of the university. Besides many valuable monographs, he wrote An Introduction to Geology (1897).