A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
History
A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
American journal of science; Science -- United States -- History
The next decade, that of 1880–1890, saw a number of notable additions to
the workers in vertebrate paleontology: Henry F. Osborn, W. B. Scott, R.
W. Shufeldt, J. L. Wortman, George Baur, F. A. Lucas, and F. W. True.
Shufeldt is our highest authority on the osteology of birds, both recent
and extinct, having recently described all of the extinct forms
contained in the Marsh collection; True wrote of Cetacea; Lucas of
marine and Pleistocene mammals and birds, and has also written popular
books on prehistoric life. Lucas’s greatest service, however, lies in
the museums, where he has manifested a genius second to none in the
installation of mute evidences of living and past organisms. Wortman was
for a time associated with Cope, later with Osborn in the American
Museum, again at the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, and finally at Yale
in research on the Bridger Eocene portion of the Marsh collection. His
work has been chiefly the perfection of field methods in vertebrate
paleontology, and as a special investigator of Tertiary Mammalia,
treating the latter largely from the morphologic and taxonomic
standpoints. Wortman’s Yale results on the carnivores and primates of
the Eocene, as yet unfinished, were published in the Journal in
1901–1904.
William B. Scott is a graduate of Princeton, and has spent thirty-four
years in her service as Blair Professor of Geology and Paleontology. His
first publication, in 1878, issued in conjunction with Osborn and Speir,
described material collected by them in the Eocene formations of the
West, and since that time Scott’s research has been entirely with the
mammals, on which he is one of our highest authorities. His most notable
works have been a History of Land Mammals of the Western Hemisphere,
1913, and the results of the Patagonian expeditions by Hatcher, which
are published in a quarto series in conjunction with W. J. Sinclair,
although they are the authors of separate volumes, Scott’s work being
mainly on the carnivores and edentates of the Santa Cruz formation. It
is as a systematist in research and as an educator that Scott has
attained his highest usefulness.
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