Percy Edward Raymond

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Percy Edward Raymond ( May 30, 1879 - May 17, 1952 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an American paleontologist.

biography

Raymond grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut . After completing his studies at Cornell University (1902), he was Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh from 1904 to 1910 . He was then at the Geological Survey of Canada and from 1912 Assistant Professor of Paleontology at Harvard University and curator at their museum. In 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1919 he received a full professorship at Harvard and in 1945 he was retired.

In 1934 he was President of the Paleontological Society .

Among other things, he researched trilobites . In 1913 he named the superfamilies Condylopygoidea and Eodisoidea and the families Condylopygidae and Eodiscidae. The trilobite family of the Raymondinidae (Clark 1924) is named after him.

He was a tin collector, published about tin, and co-founder of the Pewter Club of America and its first president.

Fonts

  • The genera of fossil conchostraca - an order of bivalved crustacea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Volume 96, 1946, pp. 217-307, 6 pl.
  • On the genera of the Eodiscidae. The Ottawa Naturalist 27, 1913, pp. 101-106.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Systematic listing of Trilobite families
personal data
SURNAME Raymond, Percy Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1879
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1952
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts