Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist
Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist

Author: Ellis Leon Yochelson

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9780873385992

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This biography of geologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) documents his career and life from birth to his retirement from the US Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott
Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott

Author: Ellis Leon Yochelson

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780873386807

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Geological Survey, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as a founding member of the National Research Council, and as president of the National Academy of Sciences.".

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1990-09-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0393245209

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"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.