Oliver Bulman
Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, FRS, also cited OMB Bulman, ( born May 20, 1902 in London, † February 18, 1974 ) was a British paleontologist and his time a leading international expert on graptolites.
Life
He studied at Chelsea Polytec and at Imperial College in London. From his student days he was close friends with the paleontologists James Stubblefield, with whom he was doing field studies of the Palaeozoic of Shropshire ( the third of which was the future professor of geology in Bristol Walter Frederick Whittard, with the Bulman after the dissertation on amphibian of the Permian worked ). Here, his interest began for graptolites, which he continued to study in Cambridge at Gertrude Lilian Elles (1872-1960) after the PhD in 1926 at Imperial College. In 1928 he received the Huxley Memorial Medal. He was then demonstrator of zoology and geology at Imperial College and from 1931 in Cambridge, where he was a lecturer in paleontology as the successor of Henry Woods. In 1945 he became a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Reader. In 1955 he became the successor of WBR King Woodwardian professor of geology. In 1966 he resigned his chair to only the research to devote himself to what he was doing at the Sedgwick Museum.
He has published in the 1930s, a series of works that were based on the prepared from the Sweden Gerhard Holm graptolites. Bulman, whose father was the artist Henry Herbert Bulman, came with his publications on graptolites benefit a great talent for drawing.
From 1934 he was associate editor of the Geological Magazine. 1962 to 1964 he was president of the Geological Society of London. 1960 to 1962 he was President of the Palaeontological Association and was president of the Geological Section of the British Association. 1971 to 1974 he was president of the Society Palaeontographical.
In 1953 he was awarded the Lyell Medal. In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was married in 1938 to Margaret Fearnsides ( daughter of Geology professor in Sheffield William George Fearnsides ( 1879-1968 ) ), had a son and three daughters.
Writings (selection )
- British Dendroid Graptolites. Palaeontographical Society, London 1934 (EA London 1927).
- Graptolithina. In: Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (ed.): Textbook of Palaeozoology. Borntraeger Verlag, Berlin, 1938.
- Graptolithina. In: Raymond C. Moore ( Lim. ): Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 2nd edition Geological Society of America, Boulder, Col., 1970 ( EA Boulder, Col. 1955).
- Geology in the Service of Man. Neuaufl. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1961 ( together with WG Fearnsides, EA Harmondsworth 1944).