Carolus Doolittle Walcott

Carolus Doolittle Walcott

Res apud Vicidata repertae:

Nativitas: 31 Martii 1850; New York Mills
Obitus: 9 Februarii 1927; Vasingtonia
Patria: Civitates Foederatae Americae

Officium

Officium: President of the Geological Society of America, Secretary of the Smithsonian
Munus: botanista, paleontologist, mycologus, researcher, naturae peritus
Patronus: United States Geological Survey, Institutum Smithsonianum, New York State Museum

Familia

Coniunx: Mary Vaux Walcott, Lura Ann Rust, Helena Stevens
Proles: Helen Walcott

Memoria

Laurae: Bigsby Medal, Hayden Memorial Geological Award, Mary Clark Thompson Medal, Wollaston Medal
Sepultura: Rock Creek Cemetery

Carolus Doolittle Walcott (natus apud New York Mills civitatis Novi Eboraci die 31 Martii 1850; Vasingtoniae mortuus die 9 Februarii 1927) fuit palaeontologus Americanus. Schistum Burgessensem in Columbia Britannica, sedimentum apothecarium, primus ipse anno 1909 invenit. Ab anno 1917 usque ad annum 1923 nonus Civitatum Foederatarum Academiae Nationalis Scientiarum praeses fuit.

Opera

• 1910 : "Abrupt appearance of the Cambrian fauna on the North American continent" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 57 (1910) pp. 1–16
• 1911 a : "Middle Cambrian Merostomata" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 57 (1911 a) pp. 18-40
• 1911 b : "Middle Cambrian holothurians and medusae" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 57 (1911 b) pp. 41-68
• 1911 c : "Middle Cambrian annelids" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 57 (1911 c) pp. 109-144
• 1912 : "Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita and Merostomata" in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections vol. 57 (1912) pp. 145-228

Bibliographia

• Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history. 1989

Haec stipula ad hominem scientificum spectat. Amplifica, si potes!

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