Charles Emerson Beecher

Charles Emerson Beecher ( born October 9, 1856 in Dunkirk (New York), † February 14, 1904 in New Haven ( Connecticut ) ) was an American paleontologist.

Beecher collected as a teenager fossils in the area of Warren (Pennsylvania), where he grew up. He studied from 1874 to 1878 at the University of Michigan, he was from 1878 to 1888 assistant to the New York State Geologist James Hall ( Charles Doolittle Walcott as well ) at the New York State Museum. Then it took Othniel Charles Marsh as curator of fossil invertebrates to the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, where he received his doctorate in 1891 at Marsh on sponges of the Silurian ( Brachiospongidae ). At the same time he taught from 1891 at the Sheffield Scientific School ( SSS) Yale University geology (representing the diseased James Dwight Dana ) and paleontology. He was a skilled taxidermist and 1892 he prepared in collaboration with Charles Schuchert fossil starfish for the Chicago World's Fair. He became a professor in 1897 for Historical Geology (later of Paleontology ) at the SSS and 1899 curator of the geological collection of the Peabody Museum as a successor to the late Marsh. He died of a heart attack in 1904. His successor at the Peabody Museum was his close friend Charles Schuchert.

He was 1900-1902 president of the Connecticut Academy of Science. In 1899 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the Geological Society of London.

He is known as trilobite researchers, especially in the early follow named him reference ( Beecher 's Trilobite Bed ) from the Ordovician in Cleveland 's Glen, Oneida County, New York, excavated, some with good soft tissue preservation by Pyritisierung.

He was in the U.S., a leading representative of Neo - Lamarckism.

In 1899 he handed over his own extremely large collection of fossils ( with over 100,000 copies ) to the Peabody Museum. Mostly they came from the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of Pennsylvania and New York.

He was married in 1894 and had two daughters.

Publications

  • Ceratiocaridæ from the upper Devonian measures in Warren County; Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1884 ( Online)
  • The development of some Silurian Brachiopoda; University of the State of New York, 1889 ( Online)
  • Outline of natural classification of the Trilobites; 1897
  • Othniel Charles Marsh; 1899
  • Studies in evolution; C. Scribner, 1901 ( Online)
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