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Cornelius Searle Hurlbut (1906–2005) was an American mineralogist.

His Dana's Manual of Mineralogy was a standard textbook to teach mineralogy. He received his B.A. from Antioch College in 1929 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1933. He studied with E. S. Larsen and wrote his dissertation on the Bonsall tonalite in southern California. He taught mineralogy and petrography at Harvard from 1931 through 1972, when he retired, becoming Professor Emeritus. He was the chair of the Harvard Mineralogy Department from 1949 to 1960.

He took over editing and publishing Dana's Manual of Mineralogy with the 15th edition in 1941. He published the 18th edition in 1971 and co-authored the 19th-21st (1999) editions with Cornelis Klein. He was also the author of Minerals and Man, selected by the American Library Association as one of the 35 "Outstanding Books of 1968," as well as co-author with Henry Wenden of The Changing Science of Mineralogy (1963), and the editor of The Planet We Live On: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Earth Sciences (1978).

In retirement, Dr. Hurlbut turned to gemology, an affiliation that began in the 1940s when he joined the Gemological Institute of America's Educational Advisory Board. He taught a gemology course at Boston University in the early 1970s and co-authored (with George Switzer) the first edition of Gemology in 1979. The second edition, co-authored with Robert Kammerling, was published in 1991.

Awards
Dr. Hurlbut was a 1955 Guggenheim Fellow, the 1963 president of the Mineralogical Society of America, and a recipient of the 1994 Carnegie Mineralogical Award for his contributions to the field. He also received the Neil Miner Award in 1966 for "excellence in teaching in the earth sciences" from the National Association of Geology Teachers.