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After due deliberation following Rogers' death in 1882, the membership of the Academy selected Othniel Marsh (1831–1899) as his successor. He served for twelve years (1883–1895). His ancestry was composed of New Englanders of English origin. He was born in Lockport in western New York where his father had a farm near the Erie Canal.
Oct 29, 2018 · Othniel Charles Marsh, an American paleontologist, was born Oct. 29, 1831. When the transcontinental railroad was laid through Wyoming in 1869, vast deposits of dinosaur bones were discovered, and Marsh, a professor at Yale, was one of the first to take advantage of the new finds.
BY CHARLES SCHUCIIERT. Othniel Charles Marsh, for ,twelve years president of the National r\caderny of Sciences, was born to Caleb Marsh and Mary Gaines Peabody on October 29, 1831, in Lockport, New York, and died in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 18, 1899. One of the three founders of the science of vertebrate paleon- tology in America, his ...
The rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope (right) sparked the Bone Wars.. The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and ...
Alamy/BBC. Othniel Charles Marsh (centre, back row) was an outstanding palaeontologist locked in a bitter rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope (not pictured (Credit: Alamy/BBC) As two warring bone ...
Othniel Charles Marsh, born in Lockport, New York, in 1831, was the son of Caleb and Mary Peabody Marsh. When he was three years old his mother died of cholera, and thereafter her bachelor brother, George Peabody, assumed full financial responsibility for Othniel's education at Andover, Yale (class of 1860), and in Germany.
Oct 29, 2020 · Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) (back row and center), surrounded by armed assistants for his 1872 expedition. On October 29, 1831, American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh was born. Being one of the preeminent scientists in the field, he discovered over 1000 fossils and contributed greatly to knowledge of ...
