Description

Group portrait of the founding members of the Institute of Geology posed on the front steps and porch of a building. They are Allan E. Cameron, Angus L. Macdonald, Walter L. Whitehead, Harold D. Smith, Donald J. MacNeil, Robert D. Howland, Malcolm Patterson, C. M. Anson, Harold Gordon, and J. P. Messervey.

Original caption: "Meeting at Crystal Farm to form the Institute of Geology at which M.I.T. students and Faculty will study during the summer months are, in usual reading order, (first row): Allan E. Cameron (hand on railing) President, Nova Scotia Technical College; Honorable Angus L. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia; Walter L. Whitehead '13, Associate Professor of Geology at M.I.T.; Harold D. Smith, President, Nova Scotia Research Foundation; (second row): Donald J. MacNeil, University of St. Francis Xavier; Robert D. Howland, Vice-president, Nova Scotia Research Foundation; Honorable Malcolm Patterson, Minister of Mines for Nova Scotia; C. M. Anson, General Manager, Dominion Steel Company; (third row): Harold Gordon, General Manager, Dominion Coal Company; and J. P. Messervey, Deputy Minister of Mines."

Original credit line: "Photo by The Russell Studio"

Used in: Technology Review, Feb. 1948 p.215