Paleonet: David Raup

[Roy Plotnick]

On 7/16/2015 7:51 AM, Alan Kabat wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/david-m-raup-who-transformed-field-of-paleontology-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
> Today's /New York Times/ (July 16) has a lengthy obituary of David 
> Raup, which humorously notes that:  "He never dug up a dinosaur and 
> was the first president of the Paleontological Society ... never to 
> have formally described a new species in the scientific literature."  
> The obituary does a fine job of summarizing his numerous contributions 
> to paleontology.
> Alan Kabat
>
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The never having described a fossil was part of his Presidential Address.

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