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Rufus Flint
Rufus Flint (born circa 1865) was a professor of English and mathematics, University of Nicaragua, conducting early Central American biodiversity studies while enrolled at Cornell University. He took his degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell’s Sibley College of Engineering in 1887.〔Cornell University, The Ten Year Book of Cornell University (1888) at (44 ).〕
==The Nicaraguan Study==
In August 1887, Professor Robert Henry Thurston, director of the Sibley College of Engineering at Cornell University, presented Rufus Flint’s three year study of Nicaragua hardwoods to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.〔Robert Henry Thurston, On Flint’s Investigation of the Nicaraguan Hardwoods ((1887 ))(reprint. from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Oct. (1887 )). Flint’s research was also reprinted in the School of Mines (Quarterly ).〕 The impetus behind the Cornell research conducted by Flint was to assess the viability of exploiting Central American timber stands when the Northwest American forest resources were exhausted. As Appleton’s Cyclopedia record, the study, “. . . proved that in that country there exist most valuable varieties of wood. The present impending wood famine may, the speaker said, be averted by the use of tropical timber.”〔Appleton’s Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year of 1887, “Associations for the Advancement of Science, American” (1888) at (33 ).〕
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