John Mason Clarke

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John M. Clarke

John Mason Clarke (born April 15, 1857 in Canandaigua , New York , † May 29, 1925 in Albany , New York) was an American geologist and paleontologist . He was a state palaeontologist of New York State and in 1909 the first president of the Paleontological Society . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JMClarke ".

Life

Clarke studied at Amherst College with a de bachelor's degree in 1877 and taught at various colleges, including Smith College, where he became a professor in 1882. During this time he began to study paleontology, especially the Upper Devonian. In 1883/84 he was in Germany, including with Adolf von Koenen in Göttingen, where he worked on the upper Devonian of the Iberg , and with Emanuel Kayser , also a Devonian specialist. In 1884/85 he taught at Amherst College. In 1886 he became assistant to the State Palaeontologist of New York James Hall at the New York State Museum of Natural History in Albany. In 1894 he became professor of geology and mineralogy at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1898 as successor to Hall state palaeontologist in New York. In 1904 he became a state geologist and palaeontologist and director of the Natural History Museum in Albany. In 1906 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In addition to the Devonian of New York, he worked the Devonian in Germany, the southeastern part of Quebec in Canada, Maryland, Argentina, Brazil and the Falkland Islands. He has produced over 450 scientific publications.

In 1916 he was President of the Geological Society of America . At least 42 species and 3 genera of living things were named after him. He himself first described and named 135 genera and 870 species. As a state geologist, he continued the land survey of New York and enforced the protection of selected geotopes.

He has received multiple honorary doctorates, including from Marburg, Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University and Amherst College. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1909), whose Mary Clark Thomson Medal he received, the American Philosophical Society (1911) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915).

Fonts

  • The fauna of the Iberg limestone, New Yearbook Mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology, Supplement, Volume 3, 1884, 316–411
  • with Hall: Devonian Crustacea, 1888
  • The Hercynian question, 1889, 1891
  • with Hall: An Introduction to the Study of the Genera of Paleozoic Brachiopoda 1892/94
  • with Hall: A Memoir on the Paleozoic Reticulate Sponges constituting the Family Dictyospongidse, 1898/99
  • The stratigraphic and faunal relations of Oneonta, Ithaca and Portage Groups in Central New York 1897
  • The paleozoic faunas of Pará, Brazil, Albany 1900
  • with Rudolf Ruedemann: The Eurypterida of New York, Albany 1912
  • with Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Charles Butts: Devonic and Carbonic formations of southwestern New York, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1903
  • The Naples fauna in western New York, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1904
  • Early Devonic History of New York and Eastern North America 1908-1909
  • The heart of Gaspe; sketches in the gulf of St. Lawrence, by John Mason Clarke; with many illustrations, Macmillan 1913
  • The philosophy of geology and the order of the state 1917 (address as President of the Geological Society)
  • Organic dependence and disease: their origin and significance, Yale University Press 1921
  • James Hall of Albany, geologist and palaeontologist, Albany 1923
  • L'ile Percée, the Final of the St. Lawrence, or Gaspé flaneries, 1923

literature

Web links

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 59.
  2. ^ Obituary by Schuchert and Ruedemann at the National Acad. Sci., Biographical Memoirs 1926
personal data
SURNAME Clarke, John Mason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Canandaigua , New York
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1925
Place of death Albany , New York