ATWOOD, WALLACE WALTER (1872— ), Ameri can geographer and geologist, was born in Chicago, Ill., on Oct. I, 1872. He graduated in 1897 and received the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1903 from the University of Chicago, in which from 1903 to 1913 he was successively instructor, assistant profes sor, associate professor and professor of physiography and gen eral geology. He was professor of physiography at Harvard uni versity from 1913 until 1920 when he became president of Clark university. In 1901-09 he was assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and in 1904 became geologist of the Illinois Geological Survey. He made extensive field researches in struc tural and economic geology, notably on the coal resources of Alaska. He also made studies of glaciation, especially in the Rocky mountains, and of the physical geography of various parts of the United States. In 1925 he founded and became editor of Economic Geology.
Besides numerous scientific and educational papers, he published Physical Geography of the Devils Lake Region (1899), Physical Geography of the Evanston-Waukegan Region of Illinois (19o8), Interpretation of Topographical Maps (5908), Glaciation of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains (1909), Mineral Resources of South-western Alaska (191o), Geology and Mineral Resources of the Alaska Penin sula (1911) and New Geography, Book II. (1920) .