27 Following the Lure: Field Experience and Professional Opportunities in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Vertebrate Paleontology

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Paul D. Brinkman
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Abstract

This contribution will provide a narrative account of the Kansas University paleontological expedition to the White River badlands in 1894. Led by the charismatic and inspirational teacher, Samuel Wendell Williston, the expedition included three students, Ermine Cowles Case, Elmer Samuel Riggs and Barnum Brown, each of whom would go on to become prominent vertebrate paleontologists at other institutions. This article will explore the role of fieldwork in establishing a paleontological career in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America.


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Naturalists in the Field

Collecting, Recording and Preserving the Natural World from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Series:  Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 2
Cover Naturalists in the Field
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9789004323841
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2018
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 New World and other Exotic Animals in the Italian Renaissance: the Menageries of Lorenzo Il Magnifico and his Son, Pope Leo X
3 The Emperor’s Exotic and New World Animals: Hans Khevenhüller and Habsburg Menageries in Vienna and Prague
4 “Judge by experience and by learninge”: the Fieldwork of William Turner (c.1508-1568)
5 On Northern Shores: Sixteenth-Century Observations of Fish and Seabirds (North Sea and North Atlantic)
6 Collecting and Preserving Fishes: a Historical Perspective
7 Into the Wild: Botanical Fieldwork in the Sixteenth Century
8 “Take with you a small Spudd or Trowell”: James Petiver’s Directions for Collecting Natural Curiosities
9 Linnaean Scholars Out of Doors: So Much to Name, Learn and Profit From
10 “Devilish fellows who test patience to the very limit”: Naturalists in the Pacific in the Age of Cook
11 Catesby’s Birds
12 The Hudson’s Bay Company and its Collectors
13 European Enlightenment in India: an Episode of Anglo-German Collaboration in the Natural Sciences on the Coromandel Coast, Late 1700s–Early 1800s
14 Eight Ways to Catch a Seal: Fieldwork in Siberia in the Age of Enlightenment
15 Face to Face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit Collections and Their Uses
16 More Than One Way to Skin a Wombat: the How and Why of Collecting in the South Seas
17 William Burchell in Southern Africa, 1811-1815
18 Snapshots of Tropical Diversity: Collecting Plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil
19 From Tubs to Flying Boats: Episodes in Transporting Living Plants
20 Faunal Collecting, Inventorying and Systematizing in the Marine Environment: a Historical, Mostly British, Perspective
21 Gathering Spirals: on the Naturalist and Shell Collector Hugh Cuming
22 Bat-Fowlers, Pooters and Cyanide Jars: a Historical Overview of Insect Collecting and Preservation
23 Nets, Labels and Boards: Materiality and Natural History Practices in Continental European Manuals on Insect Collecting 1688-1776
24 Collecting Abroad, Preserving at Home: Titian Ramsay Peale Ii, American Entomologist and Collector
25 John Russell Malloch: Amateur Naturalist to Professional Taxonomist
26 Reflections on Some Practical Aspects of Collecting During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
28 Evolving Contexts of Collecting: the Australian Experience
29 Virtual Collecting: Camera-Trapping and the Assembly of Population Data in Twenty-First-Century Biology
30 The Psychology of Finding and Recognizing Wildlife
Appendices: Some Key Texts in the History of Field Collecting
Index

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