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About the Author: Robert N. Ginsburg

Getting doen to the rock bottom of the Everglades with author Robvert N. Ginsburg in his article SURFACE ROCK IN THE LOWER EVERGFLADES is really something new. We south Floridians have over the uears been exposed to some information about the rock on which we stand, by Charles Torrey Simpson, by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, and by others. Author Ginsburg, however, brings to this subject the very special authority of one who has lately been engaged in scientific studies of that on which he writes.

We think it is to author Ginsbug's everlasting credit that we knew him for three years before we found out he is by birth, a Texan. He acquired his education at the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago, and has been a research assistant since 1950 at the Marine Lboratory of the University of Miami. This author engages in revolutionary sorts of investigrations which have the most remarkable imaginative appeal. Currently he is for one thing scrutinizing the private lives of humble algae plants which form the mats on the surface of the sawgrass Everglades, to discover whether they are very slowly and innocently depositing new layers of limestone rock.