CSS President Richard C. Hills

Richard Charles Hills

(1848 – 1923)

President of the Colorado Scientific Society (1888, 1890)

President 1888, 1890. Honorary member before 1905

Richard C. Hills
Richard C. Hills
  • Geologist
  • Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., Victor American Fuel Co., Northern Coal & Coke Co., United Oil, Continental Oil, and other companies
  • Honorary curator geological and mineralogy, Colorado Museum of Natural History (Denver City Park Museum)
  • Fellow: Geological Society of America; Geological Society of London
  • Publications on geology and coal resources of Walsenburg-Trinidad area, Colorado, and other subjects
  • Organized the library (3,000 volumes) and museum (more than 700 specimens) of the Colorado Scientific Society
  • Two fossils were named for Hills
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