Paleonet: PS Presidents prior to David Raup

[David Bapst]

A little google scholar searching suggests, yes, Jim Valentine
described a new species of Turritella in 1959, along with a co-author.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1300904

Cheers,
-Dave Bapst


On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Roy Plotnick <plotnick at uic.edu> wrote:
> On 7/16/2015 10:11 AM, Roger D. K. Thomas wrote:
>
> Good question.  Here is the statement from Raup's Presidential Address,
> published in 1978 in JP (opening sentence!) :
> "I  feel in a somewhat strange position today as the first president of The
> Society who has never described a species."
>
> I don't know if he was ever challenged on that statement.
>
> An anecdote: Bernie Kummel was Raup's advisor and visited U. Rochester to
> give a talk. At the beginning of the talk, he called Dave forward and handed
> him a fossil, with instructions to have it identified bythe end of the
> presentation.
> - Roy
>
>
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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