William Berryman Scott

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William Berryman Scott (* 12. February 1858 in Cincinnati , Ohio ; † 29. March 1947 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American vertebrate - paleontologist , an authority in the field of mammals and lead author of monographs on the Oligocene of White River in South Dakota .

Life

Scott graduated from Princeton University and received his Ph.D. at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He later was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. In 1925 he was president of the Geological Society of America .

He married Alice Adeline Post on December 15, 1883.

Honors

In 1910 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and in 1939 the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America , and in 1940 the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal of the National Academy of Sciences . He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1886, the National Academy of Sciences in 1906, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1912.

Works

  • 1888: On some new and little known creodonts. In: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Proceedings . 2nd series, Volume 9, No. 2, pp. 155-185
  • 1890: Contributions to the knowledge of the Oreodontidae. In: Morphological Yearbook . Volume 16, No. 2, pp. 319-395
  • 1891: On the osteology of Poebrotherium. In: Journal of Morphology . Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 1-78
  • 1891: On the osteology of Mesohyppos and Leptomeryx, with observations on the modes and factors of evolution in the mammalia. In: Journal of Morphology . Volume 5, No. 3, pp. 301-406
  • 1892: A revision of the North American Creodonta with notes on some genera which have been referred to that group. In: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Proceedings . 2nd series, Volume 9, No. 3, pp. 291-323
  • 1893: On a new Musteline from the John Day Miocene. In: The American Naturalist. 27, pp. 658-659.
  • 1894: The osteology of Hyaenodon. In: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Proceedings . 2nd series, Volume 9, No. 4, pp. 499-536
  • 1895: The osteology and relations of Protoceras. In: Journal of Morphology . Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 303-374
  • 1897: An introduction to geology. The Macmillian Company, New York. New editions in 1907 and 1932
  • 1898: The osteology of Elotherium. In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society . New Series, Volume 19, pp. 273-324
  • 1901-1932: Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899. The University of Princeton (editor and co-author)
  • 1913: A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere. The MacMillan Company, New York. With illustrations by Bruce Horsfall. New edition 1937
  • 1917: The theory of evolution, with special reference to the evidence upon which it is founded. The Macmillian Company, New York
  • 1922: Physiography, the science of the abode of man. Collier, New York
  • 1926: Geological climates. In: Geological Society of America Bulletin . Volume 37, No. 1, pp. 261-278
  • 1936-1941: The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 5 volumes
  • 1939: Some memories of a palaeontologist. Princeton University Press ( Google Books )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wollaston Medal . The Geological Society of London , archived from the original on August 19, 2010 ; accessed on January 23, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  2. ^ Penrose Medal Winner, Geological Society of America
  3. ^ Member History: William B. Scott. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, William Berryman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American vertebrate paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1947
Place of death Princeton , New Jersey