Paleonet: PS Presidents prior to David Raup

[Roger D. K. Thomas]

Dear Colleagues,

     The NY Times obituary is very fine.  But, is that highlighted
statement true?  Has either Jim Valentine or Alan Shaw ever described a new
species?  I have not probed further back than that.  The point made by this
claim appropriately characterizes the nature of Dave's contributions, but
is it strictly accurate?

     Kind regards,   Roger

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Roy Plotnick <plotnick at uic.edu> wrote:

>  On 7/16/2015 7:51 AM, Alan Kabat wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/david-m-raup-who-transformed-field-of-paleontology-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
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> 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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