scholarly journals VI.—Restoration of Mastodon Americanus, Cuvier

1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-164
Author(s):  
O. C. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Orange County ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The State ◽  
Great Abundance ◽  
Good Preservation ◽  
State Museum ◽  
Richard Owen

The great abundance and good preservation of the remains of the American Mastodon have led to various restorations of the skeleton. The best known of these is that made by Prof. Richard Owen, in 1846, based upon a skeleton from Missouri, now in the British Museum. Another restoration was made a few years later by Dr. J. C. Warren, based mainly on a very perfect skeleton from Orange county, New York. This skeleton is now preserved in the Warren Museum in Boston. A third restoration was made by Prof. James Hall, from a skeleton found at Cohoes, New York, and now in the State Museum of Natural History, in Albany. These restorations are all of importance, and taken together have made clear to anatomists nearly all the essential features of the skeleton of this well-known species.

Robert Parr Whitfield: Hall's Assistant Who Stayed too Long

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Batten
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Scientific Instrument ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Breach Of Contract

R. P. Whitfield was born near Utica in 1828. He had no formal education. He was deeply committed to natural history and joined a Utica society at 17 and bought a microscope and soon became well known as a naturalist illustrator. At 20 years of age he began working in a scientific instrument business at Utica and within a year became a partner. He caught the attention of Col. Jewett, a curator of the State Cabinet and joined the Hall paleontology group in 1856. He was Hall's chief illustrator for 10 years, gradually learning the trade and becoming Hall's chief assistant. In 1869, trouble developed over the authorship of a paper on Devonian clams and their relationship quickly deteriorated to the point that Whitfield looked for a position elsewhere, securing such at the American Museum of Natural History in 1877. Even when he left, Hall accused him of breach of contract but evidence indicates that Hall knew that he had the job in New York following the purchase of Hall's collection by the American Museum of Natural History. Whitfield became an active producer of papers on a wide variety of paleontology averaging 3-4 per year and became a major influence in Paleontology in the 1880-1900 period. He died shortly after he was retired at the age of 82 in 1910.

scholarly journals III.—On a Limestone with Concentric Structure from Kulu, North India

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 255-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Davies Sherborn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New York State ◽  
British Museum ◽  
North India ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
York State ◽  
State Museum ◽  
York State Museum ◽  
Concentric Structure

In the Thirty-Sixth Annual Eeport on the New York State Museum of Natural History (8vo. Albany, 1884), is a folding plate with a fly-leaf descriptive of a specimen with peculiar structure from the Calciferous Sandstone group of Greenfield, Saratoga Co. referred to a new genus and species under the name of Cryptozoon proliferum, but no author's name appeared to either the plate or the description. The peculiar appearance of the American figure reminded Prof. Eupert Jones of a specimen in his collection, and having kindly placed it in ray hands and permitted me to bring it before the notice of the readers of the Geological Magazine, he has given it to the British Museum. Prof. Jones's specimen was collected by the late John Calvert, F.G.S., the author of “Vazeeri Rupi, the Silver Country of the Vazeers in Kulu,” and the rock is referred to at p. 8 of that book. The specimen was shown by Mr. Calvert to Sir Warington W. Smyth (whose opinion as to its inorganic nature is quoted by Mr. Calvert), and afterwards given to Prof. Jones.

scholarly journals Letters on the natural history and internal resources of the State of New-York by Hibernicus.

1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
DeWitt Clinton ◽  
DeWitt Clinton ◽  
DeWitt Clinton ◽  
DeWitt Clinton ◽  
Jared Sparks
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
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