Arthur Lakes

Arthur Lakes ( born December 21, 1844 in Martock, Somerset, † November 21, 1917 in Nelson (British Columbia) ) was a British- American paleontologist and geologist.

Life

He studied until 1865 at Queen 's College, Oxford and then went first as a teacher to Canada and then to Colorado. Even while studying at Oxford began his interest in paleontology, but he could not go into this because he had to earn his keep.

Lakes in 1877 the first dinosaur fossils in the famous reference Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison (Colorado ) from the end of the Cretaceous Dakota Formation. Among other things, he found skeletons of Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus and Camptosaurus. He has worked on behalf of Othniel Charles Marsh from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Bone Wars delivered himself with his rival Edward Drinker Cope to fossils in the 1870s. Since Marsh to the letter sent by finds of Lakes initially responded hesitantly, Lakes also joined Cope in conjunction with and sent him fossils. Marsh hastened then to recruit Lakes for himself and wrote to Cope that already sent to email finds him of what their hostility exacerbated. 1879/80 he was commissioned by Marsh in Como Bluff in Wyoming as fossil excavator.

He was next involved in the mining exploration of Colorado ( and drilled there in vain for oil ) and its geological exploration. He was a teacher at the later Colorado School of Mines, then a boys' school, Jarvis Hall Collegiate School in Golden ( Colorado), 1870 with a mining school ( School of Mining), where a library is named after him today. He taught English, Latin and later drawing and writing. 1882 to 1891 he was Professor of Geology and founded a Geological Museum, based on his collection of minerals. He later worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, was from 1895 to 1904, the magazine Mines and Minerals out, in which he also published a lot, and was successful consulting mining engineer. In 1905 he retired and moved to his son after Ymir, British Columbia, Canada, where he worked as a consulting mining engineer.

He was an excellent draftsman and produced many sketches of his finds and geological reconnaissance on.