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The Columbia Geologist, May 1950 issue, announcing the new research operations at Lamont Observatory.

In 1993, the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory was renamed the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in recognition if its growing scope of expertise and influence in the Earth sciences. The Geological Observatory becomes the Earth Observatory and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation is a major supporter of oceanographic institutions. Henry Latham Doherty (1870-1939) was the founder of the Cities Service Company. In 1969, the Observatory was renamed “Lamont-Doherty” after a major contribution from the Henry L. My gift is unrestricted,” but she was pleased with the University’s plans to make the property a center of geological research, and assured that “the world benefit.” She wrote, in part, “I am giving the property in my husband’s memory. Lamont died and his widow, Florence Corliss Lamont (1873-1952), an alumna of Columbia University, donated the estate to Columbia. He named the estate “Torrey Cliff” after John Torrey, a prominent botanist who had spent summers on the site from about 1854 to 1865. Lamont (1870-1948), a Wall Street banker, constructed a weekend residence overlooking the Hudson River in Palisades, New York. This is a photo from a Cities Service brochure from 1927. Henry Latham Doherty (1870-1939) was the founder and president of the Cities Service Company.