Arthur Lakes
Arthur Lakes (born December 21, 1844 in Martock , Somerset , † November 21, 1917 in Nelson (British Columbia) ) was a British-American paleontologist and geologist .
Life
He studied at Queen's College in Oxford until 1865 and then went first as a teacher to Canada and then to Colorado . His interest in paleontology began while studying at Oxford, but he could not deepen it because he had to earn a living.
Lakes found the first dinosaur fossils in 1877 in the famous Dinosaur Ridge site near Morrison (Colorado) in the Dakota Formation at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Among other things, he found skeletons of Stegosaurus , Diplodocus , Apatosaurus , Camptosaurus and Allosaurus . He worked on behalf of Othniel Charles Marsh of the Peabody Museum of Natural History , who with his competitor Edward Drinker Cope fought the Bone Wars over fossils in the 1870s. Since Marsh initially reacted hesitantly to the letter notification of lakes' findings, Lakes also contacted Cope and sent him fossils. Marsh then hurried to recruit Lakes for himself and wrote to Cope to send him the finds that had already been sent, which heightened their hostility. In 1879/80 he was commissioned by Marsh in Como Bluff in Wyoming as a fossil excavator.
He was also involved in the mining exploration of Colorado (and drilled there in vain for oil) and its geological exploration. He was a teacher at the later Colorado School of Mines , then a boys' school, Jarvis Hall Collegiate School, in Golden (Colorado) , from 1870 with a mining school (School of Mining), at which a library is named after him today. He taught English, Latin and later drawing and writing. From 1882 to 1891 he was professor of geology there, where he founded a geological museum based on his mineral collection. He later worked for the US Geological Survey , edited the magazine Mines and Minerals from 1895 to 1904 , in which he also published a great deal, and was a successful consulting mining engineer. In 1905 he retired and moved to live with his son in Ymir, British Columbia , Canada, where he worked as a consulting mining engineer.
He was an excellent draftsman and made many sketches of his finds and geological explorations.
literature
- Beth Simmons, Katherine Honda Arthur Lakes , Rocks and Minerals, 84, 2009, No. 5 (also therein: Susan Robinson The Art of Arthur Lakes )
- Michael Kohl, John McIntosh (Editor) Discovering dinosaurs in the Old West: the field journals of Arthur Lakes , Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 1997 (preface by John Ostrom )
- Katherine Honda, Beth Simmons Legacy of Arthur Lakes , Morrison: Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 2009
Fonts
- Prospecting for Gold and Silver in North America , Scranton: The Colliery Engineer 1895, Archive
- Geology of Colorado Ore Deposits , Denver 1888, Archives
- Geology of Western Ore Deposits , Denver 1905
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lakes, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Martock |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1917 |
| Place of death | Nelson (British Columbia) |