Rowland F. Hill died in Washington, D.C., in May, 1941.
He was an American by birth, and graduated from the School of Mines, Columbia University, with the degree of E.M., in 1898. He started his career in charge of a party making a topographical survey of a gold area in Virginia, and in 1899 was an assistant to Mr. T.A. Rickard in mine examination work in Colorado and Arizona. Subsequently he worked in a similar capacity for Mr. John Hays Hammond and Mr. A. Chester Beatty, and from 1901 to 1905 was engaged in general examination work in the U.S.A., having an office in New York. In 1905 he was appointed mining engineer for the General Chemical Company, and later set up in practice as a consulting mining engineer. In addition to his work in the United States, he also reported on properties in Canada, Newfoundland and Mexico.
Mr. Hill was elected a Member of the Institution in 1906.
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