Robert Tracy Jackson
Robert Tracy Jackson (born July 13, 1861 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † 1948 in Peterborough , New Hampshire ) was an American paleontologist . He was a professor at Harvard University and was primarily concerned with fossil echinoderms .
Life
Jackson graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1884 and received his PhD from Harvard in 1889. From 1891 he was on the faculty of Harvard University, where he became associate in paleontology in 1911 and curator of fossil echinoderms at the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
In 1919 he was President of the Paleontological Society . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1895).
Fonts
- Phylogeny of the Echini, with a revision of the palaeozoic species, Memoirs Boston Society of Natural History 7, 1912, Archives
- Localized stages in development in plants and animals, Memoirs Boston Society of Natural History 5, 1899, pp. 89-153
- with Thomas Wayland Vaughan: Fossil Echini of the West Indies, Washington, Carnegie Institution 1922
- Fossil Echini of the Panama Canal Zone and Costa Rica, Proc. United States National Museum, 53, 1917, pp. 489-501
literature
- Obituary in Science, Volume 109, 1949, pp. 93-94, first page online
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| SURNAME | Jackson, Robert Tracy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorchester , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |
| Place of death | Peterborough , New Hampshire |