Benjamin Franklin Howell (paleontologist)

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Benjamin Franklin Howell (born September 30, 1890 in Troy Hills , Pennsylvania , † May 28, 1976 in State College , Pennsylvania) was an American paleontologist and geologist . He was Professor of Geology and Paleontology at Princeton University .

Life

Howell went to school in Morristown, New Jersey, and studied at Princeton University, where he studied biology and then geology and paleontology under the influence of paleontologist Gilbert Van Ingen . In 1913 he received his Bachelor Accounts, 1915 the Master Accounts and 1920 he received his doctorate in geology (The faunas of the Cambrian Paradoxides beds at Manuel's, Newfoundland). From 1915 Howell was an instructor in geology at Princeton, in 1920 he became an assistant professor , 1924 curator, 1925 associate professor and 1947 professor. In 1959 he retired. Under his direction, one of the largest collections of Cambrian fossils in the world was built in Princeton . He himself was particularly concerned with Cambrian trilobites and Cambrian stratigraphy.

He was also a part-time professor of geology and geography at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia (a school for adult education) from 1928 to 1947 and during this time also curator of paleontology at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania .

In 1944 he was President of the Paleontological Society and Vice President of the Geological Society of America. He headed a committee that started the publication of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . As part of the Treatise he was involved in the trilobite band (Part O. Arthropoda 1), which appeared in 1959.

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SURNAME Howell, Benjamin Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Troy Hills , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1976
Place of death State College , Pennsylvania