Benjamin Smith Lyman
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Benjamin Smith Lyman (b. 1835, Northampton, Massachusetts - d. 1920) was an American mining engineer.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, then studied at the Ecoles des Mines in Paris (1859 -1861), and at the Freiburg (Saxony) Mining Academy (1861 - 1862).
In 1870 he surveyed oil fields for the Public Works Department of the government of India. From 1873 -1879 he was chief geologist and mining engineer to the Japanese government. He was assistant on the Pennsylvania Geological Survey from 1887 until 1895.
He wrote the following papers:
- General Report on the Punjab Oil Lands (1878)
- Preliminary Report on the First Season's Work on the Geological Survey of Yesso (1874)
- A General Report on the Geology of Yesso (1877)
- Geological Survey of Japan (1879)
- Japanese Swords (1892)
- The Philippines (1907)
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.