Ray S. Bassler

Ray Smith Bassler ( born July 22, 1878 in Philadelphia, † October 3, 1961 in Washington, DC) was an American paleontologist.

Bassler grew up in Cincinnati and collected already in high school fossils, where he came into contact with paleontologists as Charles Schuchert, Carl Ludwig Rominger (1820-1907), and Edward Oscar Ulrich. He studied geology at the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor 's degree in 1902 and from George Washington University with a master's degree in 1903 and his doctorate in 1904. Afterwards it was until 1948 an assistant professor of geology at the George Washington University. From 1904 he was also Assis dance curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C, and curator from 1907 ( in the Department of Palaeontology of invertebrates ). 1910 to 1922 he was Curator of Paleontology and 1923-1928 of the Department of stratigraphic paleontology. From 1929 he was chief curator there ( Head Curator ) of the Department of Geology and after his retirement in 1948 associate in paleontology.

1905 to 1931 he studied with the Frenchman Ferdinand Canu bryozoans ( Bryozoa ) from the Tertiary of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

He is the author of the 1953 band appeared in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology bryozoans.