biography
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| lived:
| (1811–98)
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| biography:
| Geologist and palaeontologist, born in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and became both the leading stratigraphic geologist and invertebrate palaeontologist of his day and an unparalleled collector of geological specimens. He published Geology of New York (Part 4, 1843). As New York state palaeontologist (1843–98) and director of the New York State Museum (1871–98), he trained many younger palaeontologists (including George B Simpson and Charles Schuchert) and published New York State Natural History Survey: Paleontology (13 vols, 1847–94). |
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