| RefNo | EC/1919/09 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 159; A04776 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Matthew, William Diller: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | Assistant in Amercian Museum of Natural History, New York, 1895-1911; Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology from 1911. A Canadian palaeontologist distinguished for his valuable contribution to our knowledge of the fossil mammals of North America, and his philosophica discussions of the modern results of vertebrate palaeontology. By geological research in he field the has helped largely in the more exact determination of the relative ages of the fossils occurring in the tertiary rocks of western North America. He has also done much to popularize vertebrate palaeontology and to spread a general interest in the subject. Author of numerous memoirs and papers, among which may be enumerated: - 'Revision of the Puerco Fauna' (1897); 'Fossil Mammals of the Tertiary of NW Colorado' (1901); 'Hypothetical Outlines of the Continents in Tertiary Times' (1906); 'Osteology of Blastomeryx and Phylogeny of the American Cervidae' (1908); 'Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin' (1909); 'Phylogeny of the Felidae' (1910); 'Revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River Faunas' (1915-1916), (Bull and Memoirs, Amer Mus Nat Hist); 'On certain Theoretical Considerations affecting Phylogeny and Correlation' (1914), (Bull Geol Soc Amer); 'Climate and Evolution' (1915), (Annals, New York Acad Sci). |
| Proposers | A S Woodward; C W Andrews; H Woodward; E S Goodrich; O Thomas; G Elliot Smith |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1697 | Matthew; William Diller (1871 - 1930) | 1871 - 1930 |