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Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree). He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera .
SAMUEL WENDELL WILLISTON. 1852-1918. By RICHARD SWANN LULL. PART I.—BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. In his immediate family, Prof. Williston stood as a conspicuous figure, as a scholar, a man of research, and one who by an innate superiority made himself what he was.
In the Society of the Sigma. By an unhappy stroke of fate, the Society of Sigma Xi shortly after the loss of its founder and first President, Henry Shaler Wil liams, is also mourning the passing away of its second President, Samuel Wendell Williston on whose strong shoulders fell the major burden of the development and extension of the ...
421. SAMUEL WENDELL WILLISTON (1852-1918) Fellow in Class II, Section 1, 1915. In the death of Doctor Williston, North America has lost one of its oldest and ablest workers in Vertebrate Paleontology. He had. specialized in this branch of science since 1874, his especial field being. extinct reptiles and amphibians.
Samuel Wendell Williston (1852-1918) on JSTOR. Hervey Woodburn Shimer, Samuel Wendell Williston (1852-1918), Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 54, No. 6 (Sep., 1919), pp. 421-423.
Samuel Wendell Williston in his introduction to the Manual of North American Diptera, 3 rd Edition, 1908. INTRODUCTION. Members of the Kansas Academy of Sciences are most familiar with S. W. Williston because of his role as a vertebrate paleontologist during the golden years when Cope and Marsh were competing for specimens.
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He was a prolific writer, authoring 283 publications, most in paleontology but 97 in entomology. Among his important publications were “Synopsis of North American Syrphidae” (1886), and “Manual of the families and genera of North American Diptera” (1896). Williston died at Chicago on August 30, 1918.
