Paleonet: PS Presidents prior to David Raup

[David Bapst]

...and Alan Shaw described several new species of Cambrian trilobites
in 1951, as well as the genus Missisquoia.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1299834

Cheers,
-Dave Bapst

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM, David Bapst <dwbapst at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>> 845 W. Taylor St.
>> Chicago, IL 60607
>>
>> E-mail: plotnick at uic.edu
>> office 2454 SES
>> office phone: 312-996-2111     fax: 312-413-2279
>> lab phone: 312-355-1342
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>>
>> web page: http://www.uic.edu/~plotnick/plotnick.htm
>>
>> "The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial periods,
>> gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with
>> characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa  May Alcott
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> David W. Bapst, PhD
> Adjunct Asst. Professor, Geology and Geol. Eng.
> South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
> 501 E. St. Joseph
> Rapid City, SD 57701
>
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Adjunct Asst. Professor, Geology and Geol. Eng.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 E. St. Joseph
Rapid City, SD 57701

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