Lardner Vanuxem
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Lardner Vanuxem, was an American geologist. He was graduated at the Ecole des mines, Paris, in 1819. After his education, he became the Chair of Chemistry and Mineralogy at South Carolina College in Columbia, South Carolina. In 1826 he retired from the college and devoted his attention exclusively to geology as a profession. During that year he published in newspapers and in Robert Mills' "Statistics of South Carolina" report on the geology of the state.
