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Cornelius Searle Hurlbut Jrupon 1 September 2005 Cornelius s Hurlbut Jr., known to family and friends as "Connie," died peacefully in Lexington, Massachusetts, in his individual hundredth year. He was born 30 June 1906 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of a dentist. A graduate of Antioch association Hurlbut arrived at Harvard University for graduate close attention in fall 1933 and at no time left. He trained as a petrologist beneath Prof. Esper S. Larsen, studying the Bonsai tonalite in San Diego shire California, for his dissertation; he was also part of Larsen's team that studied the Highwood Mountains of Montana. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1934 as a petrography instructor on the contrary switched to mineralogy when Prof Charles Palache recruited him to assist in teaching the undergraduate mineralogy course. upon Palache's retirement, Hurlbut took above Mineralogy 101, which consisted of three one-hour prelections and two three-hour laboratories by week for a full year, and he taught it until he retired in June 1972 His retirement was celebrated with a marvellous party in the Smithsonian Institution's Hall of Minerals and jewels the first such use of the hall. This appreciation is just too short to do justice to the importance of Hurlbut's teaching or research. He was a prolific writer and is best known for his authorship of the Manual of Mineralogy. Hurlbut brought on the outside a completely rewritten fifteenth edition in 1941 later editions appeared in 1952, 1959 and 1971 In retirement three more editions, prepared in collaboration with Cornelis Klein, appeared in 1977 1985 and 1993 The Manual has now been translated into several other languages and must rank as the leading mineralogy textbook of all time. For the general reader he twice revised Minerals and in what way to Study Them (1949, 1998) and wrote Minerals and Man (1970) a coffee-table volume that reflects his travels and captures many of his mineralogical anecdotes, embellishments he told in class that made recalling the related principles an easy task. What is retirement on the contrary the freedom to do what you wish with fewer responsibilities? Hurlbut revolveed to research, teaching, and writing in gemology a field of applied mineralogy, and contributed substantially. After teaching a course in gemology at Boston association and finding no suitable textbook he wrote with George Switzer, Gemology (1979) a textbook similar to the Manual. A next to the first edition with Robert Kammerling appeared in 1991 He also serv upon the editorial review board of jewels & Gemology from 1981 until his passing. Hurlbut received many honors. A of recent origin calcium beryllium phosphate was discovered upon a field trip to the G E Smith mine, a granite pegmatite in Newport, novel Hampshire, by Judy Frondel, who, having extracted it from beneath her as she settl down for luncheon on the mine dump, glanced at it before casting it aside and asked, "What is this?" It was described and named hurlbutite by means of Mary Mrose in 1952. Hurlbut was neared with the Neil Miner Award by dint of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers in 1966 and with the Carnegie Mineralogical Award at the Tucson precious stone and Mineral Show in 1994 Hurlbut was a prominent American mineralogist whose service to mineralogy included more than forty years of teaching and research; extensive writing for professional, scholar and general audiences; and administration as chair of the department and as an officer of the Mineralogical Society of America. He was also a fine family man, an inventor, author of poems and avid tennis player. A warm, kind, and gracious individual, in fact a gentle man, he is survived by the agency of his three children (Neil, Patty, and Marc), six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Carl A. Francis Harvard Mineralogical Museum Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 cfrancis@fas.harvard.edu Dr Carl A. 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