Arthur Ware Slocom
Arthur Ware Slocom (born November 8, 1860 in Milford , Massachusetts , † November 20, 1937 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American paleontologist and curator .
Life
After finishing school, Arthur Slocom went to Milwaukee to work in an uncle's straw hat business. With an increasing interest in the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1896 . Among other things, he took paleontology with Stuart Weller (1870-1927), who was Slocom's mentor until his sudden death in 1927 . At Weller's suggestion, he spent a year (1898/99) at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester , New York, and the following year at the Milwaukee Public Museum . In 1901 he was employed as a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and was deputy curator under Stuart Weller from 1914. Between 1906 and 1924 Slocom published eight publications, most of which dealt with fossil echinoderms (Echinodermata) and trilobites (Trilobita).
literature
- Carey Croneis: Arthur Ware Slocom . In: Science . Volume 87, No. 2254 , 1938, pp. 227 , doi : 10.1126 / science.87.2254.227-a .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Slocom, Arthur Ware |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slocom, Arthur W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milford , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1937 |
| Place of death | Chicago , Illinois |