1 results in SIA.FARU9524 for "United States National Museum. Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology"
Covers his youth, education, and career at the USNM, c. 1902-1965, including: family and childhood in Flushing, New York; mineral collecting with Arthur Payne; undergraduate major in chemistry at Colgate University, 1921-1924; stratigraphic research for the M.S. degree from Colgate in 1926; doctoral program at Yale University under supervision of Carl O. Dunbar and Charles Schuchert, 1926-1929; initial work on brachiopods with Schuchert at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1928-1930; doctoral dissertation on the stratigraphy of the Hamilton formation, 1929; continuation of brachiopod research at the USNM, 1930s; establishment of acid-etching program for silicified fossils; Ozarkian-Canadian dispute between Ulrich, Foerste, Bridge, Resser, and Cooper, 1934; reminiscences of his supervisor, Charles Resser, 1930-1943; state of the brachiopod collection upon his arrival in 1930 and its subsequent development; effects of the Great Depression including Work Progress Administration assistants, 1930s; field work in the United States and Canada; reminiscences of his early years at the USNM, including museum services, curatorial responsibilities, and USNM director Alexander Wetmore; field work in Mexico during World War II; relationship between paleontology and stratigraphy, and the switch to the name "paleobiology"; relationship of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to the USNM; acquisition of specimens from the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center, 1960s.
