Oliver Bulman

Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman , FRS, also cited by OMB Bulman, (born May 20, 1902 in London , † February 18, 1974 ) was a British paleontologist and at his time a leading international expert on graptolites .

Life

He studied at Chelsea Polytec and Imperial College in London. From student days, he was closely associated with the paleontologist James Stubblefield friends, with whom he field studies on the Paleozoic of Shropshire hired (the third was in league later Geology - Professor in Bristol Walter Frederick Whittard , the Bulman after dissertation on amphibians of Perm worked ). This started his interest in graptolites, which he studied after graduating from Imperial College in Cambridge in 1926 with Gertrude Lilian Elles (1872-1960). In 1928 he received the Huxley Memorial Medal. He was then a demonstrator of zoology and geology at Imperial College and from 1931 in Cambridge , where he was lecturer in paleontology as the successor to Henry Woods . In 1945 he became a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Reader in Cambridge. In 1955 he succeeded WBR King Woodwardian Professor of Geology. In 1966 he resigned from his chair to devote himself only to research, which he did at the Sedgwick Museum .

Bulman published a series of works in the 1930s based on the graptolites prepared by the Swede Gerhard Holm. Bulman, whose father was the artist Henry Herbert Bulman, benefited from an excellent talent for drawing in his publications on graptolites.

From 1934 he was co-editor of the Geological Magazine. 1962 to 1964 he was President of the Geological Society of London . From 1960 to 1962 he was President of the Palaeontological Association and he was President of the Geology Section of the British Association . 1971 to 1974 he was President of the Palaeontographical Society .

In 1953 he received the Lyell Medal . In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Bulman was married to Margaret Fearnsides since 1938 (daughter of the geology professor in Sheffield William George Fearnsides (1879-1968)), had a son and three daughters.

Adrian WA Rushton is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• British Dendroid Graptolites . Palaeontographical Society, London 1934 (EA London 1927).
• Graptolithina . In: Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (ed.): Textbook of paleozoology . Borntraeger Verlag, Berlin 1938.
• Graptolithina . In: Raymond C. Moore (abbreviation): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . 2nd ed. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Col. 1970 (EA Boulder, Col. 1955).
• Geology in the Service of Man . New edition Penguin, Harmondsworth 1961 (together with WG Fearnsides; EA Harmondsworth 1944).

literature

• James Stubblefield: Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, May 20, 1902– February 18, 1974 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , Vol. 21 (1975), pp. 175-195, ISSN  0080-4606 .

Web links

• Biography in graptolite.net