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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 3 June 1905, Page 41

Professor G. C. Curtis, who is assistant geological professor in Harvard University, leaves Auckland this week for America in the Ventura. Hi? recently

paid a visit to Milford Sound and the glacial regions of the Southern Alps. He was a member of the scientific expedition that sailed from ifew York for Martinique within thirty hours of the Mount Pelee eruption, lie camped for six weeks on the mountain. takl“g geological observations, and the result of his work was the most valuable contribution made by any member of the party. Professor Curtis speaks in the highest terms of Dr. Bell, the Government Geologist, with whom he studied at Harvard. A brother of Professor Curtis has succeeded to Dr. Bell's position in Canada. The professor made several excursions in the neighbourhood of Mount Cook, and painted some pictures. On more than • one occasion he painted so long that his brush froze to the canvas.