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From page 265... ... ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER December 2S, 1894-November 5, 1973 BY EDWIN H COLBERT AEFRED SHERWOOD ROMER was a man of many aspects: a profound scholar whose studies of vertebrate evolution based upon the comparative anatomy of fossils established him throughout the worIc} as an outstanding figure in his fielcI; a gifted teacher who trained several generations of paleontologists and anatomists; an effective administrator who never allowed the burden of office to diminish his research activities; a lucid writer whose books and scientific papers were and are of inestimable value; and a warm person, loved and admired by family, friends, and colleagues. Read the entire page →
From page 266... ... 266 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS Burlington, Vermont by his widowed mother about ~ ~ ~ 5. As for other forebears, Al has written that he hacI "a gooc! Read the entire page →
From page 267... ... When he was not at either the Institute or at his aunts' house, he spent many hours at the American Museum of Natural History, where he lost his heart to the fossils on display there. When he later heard about fossil vertebrates from Professor Loomis, he understood the significance of his old museum friends. Read the entire page →
From page 268... ... Air Service, where through the months he acivanced from the status of a private to the rank of second lieutenant. His service in France culminated with his appointment to a post in command of about five huncired French laclies at a special camp where they were sewing covers on the wings of airplanes. Read the entire page →
From page 269... ... ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER 269 complete an unclerstancling of the vertebrate skull as ctid Gregory, and certainly the young Romer benefited from that; he too hac! a marvelous understanding of the skull. Read the entire page →
From page 270... ... Well, they were looking for a vertebrate paleontologist and heard I was in town. So I was invited over to lunch by the chairman of the appropriate department. Read the entire page →
From page 271... ... E Erikson, "Alfred Sherwood Romer" (Proceedings of the Ninetieth Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists) Read the entire page →
From page 272... ... One wonders what direction his life would have taken if he hacT not gone to Chicago, if he hacI stayed at Bellevue, or if he hac! gone to some institution lacking a program in vertebrate paleontology or a collection of fossil vertebrates. Read the entire page →
From page 273... ... During the same year the first edition of his invaluable textbook, Vertebrate Paleontology, was publishecl. Both of these books have enjoyed well-deserved success in this country and abroad and have appeared during subsequent years as revised editions. Read the entire page →
From page 274... ... He was to be professor of zoology and at the same time curator of vertebrate paleontology at the famous Museum of Comparative Zoology (the MCZ as it is known to museum people around the worId) Read the entire page →
From page 275... ... It should be emphasized that during his years at Harvard, Professor Romer trained an outstanding cadre of vertebrate paleontologists, anatomists, and vertebrate zoologists, men and women who now hold positions in universities and museums across the land, and in some foreign countries as well. During this earlier years at Harvard, the MCZ was under the directorship of Thomas Barbour, a distinguished herpetologist. Read the entire page →
From page 276... ... Al was active in many scientific societies. Perhaps his greatest satisfaction in this connection was his role in the organization of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, of which he was the first president in 1940. Read the entire page →
From page 277... ... Romer published considerably more than two hundred papers and books on a wide variety of subjects within the general fields of vertebrate paleontology, anatomy, and evolution. He was especially interested in those fishes most closely related to the tetrapods, presenting, valuable papers Read the entire page →
From page 278... ... Many of his papers were in a sense concerned with comparative anatomy particularly the anatomy of extinct tetrapods. There were, however, important basic anatomical studies, such as his early papers on limb musculature, his papers on crossopterygian fins and on the foot in early tetra Read the entire page →
From page 279... ... He felt that this was the most effective manner in which he could discuss larger evolutionary problems. Romer bequeathed his magnificent personal library covering the fields of vertebrate paleontology, anatomy, and embryology to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and it is located in his old office, a spacious and comfortable room. Read the entire page →
From page 280... ... Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas "red beds." Geol. Read the entire page →
From page 281... ... Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds. Read the entire page →
From page 282... ... 42:700-719. 1935 Early history of Texas red beds vertebrates. Read the entire page →
From page 283... ... Univ., 1938-1939:37-39. 1940 Fossil collecting in the Texas red beds. Read the entire page →
From page 284... ... Edops, a primitive rhachitomous amphibian from the Texas red beds. Read the entire page →
From page 285... ... Press. The Vertebrate Body. Read the entire page →
From page 286... ... In: Guidebook for the Fourth Field Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Northwestern New Mexico, ed. Read the entire page →
From page 287... ... The Texas Permian red beds and their vertebrate fauna. In: Studies on Fossil Vertebrates, ed. Read the entire page →
From page 288... ... Copeia, 1962:223-27. Ihe Vertebrate Body. Read the entire page →
From page 289... ... 1966 The Chanares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. Read the entire page →
From page 290... ... Triassic reptile fauna. Read the entire page →
From page 291... ... Triassic reptile fauna. Read the entire page →
From page 292... ... Triassic reptile fauna. Read the entire page →
From page 293... ... Triassic reptile fauna. Read the entire page →
From page 294... ... 1974 The stratigraphy of the Permian Wichita red beds of Texas. Breviora, 427:1-31. Read the entire page →

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... ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER December 2S, 1894-November 5, 1973 BY EDWIN H COLBERT AEFRED SHERWOOD ROMER was a man of many aspects: a profound scholar whose studies of vertebrate evolution based upon the comparative anatomy of fossils established him throughout the worIc} as an outstanding figure in his fielcI; a gifted teacher who trained several generations of paleontologists and anatomists; an effective administrator who never allowed the burden of office to diminish his research activities; a lucid writer whose books and scientific papers were and are of inestimable value; and a warm person, loved and admired by family, friends, and colleagues.