Joseph Frederick Whiteaves

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Joseph Frederick Whiteaves (born December 26, 1835 in Oxford , † August 8, 1909 in Ottawa ) was a British-Canadian paleontologist and zoologist .

Life

Whiteaves was educated in private schools in Brighton, London and Oxford and was at Oxford staff of John Phillips and studied formations and fossils of the Jurassic. After a visit to Canada (1861) he became a curator at the Museum of the Natural History Society of Montreal and its secretary in 1863. During this time he dealt with freshwater and land mollusks of Canada and marine invertebrates (which he collected with trawls at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River) as well as with fossils of the Silurian and Ordovician from the area around Montreal. In 1875 he joined the Geological Survey of Canada as a paleontologist (1876 official successor to Elkanah Billings as paleontologist of the survey), in which he became a zoologist and one of the four deputy directors in 1877. He also headed the Museum des Surveys and in 1881 moved from Montreal to Ottawa to the new headquarters of the Surveys.

He was one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (1881). He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (1859). In 1900 he received an honorary doctorate from McGill University . He wrote around 150 scientific publications and he first described around 450 taxa, including Eusthenopteron and Anomalocaris .

In 1907 he received the Lyell Medal .

He was married twice and had a son and a daughter.

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SURNAME Whiteaves, Joseph Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1909
Place of death Ottawa