| LC control no. | n 87816904 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Douglass, Earl, 1862-1931 |
| Variant(s) | Douglass, Earl, b. 1862 |
| Located | Medford (Minn.) South Dakota Saint Louis (Mo.) Iowa Montana Pittsburgh (Pa.) Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Birth date | 1862-10-23 |
| Death date | 1931-01-31 |
| Place of birth | Medford (Minn.) |
| Place of death | Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Field of activity | Botany Paleontology Geology Biology |
| Affiliation | University of Dakota at Vermillion South Dakota Agricultural College Missouri Botanical Garden Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) Iowa State College Princeton University Carnegie Museum of Natural History Dinosaur National Monument (Agency : U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists Paleontologists Geologists Biologists |
| Found in | LCCN 01-2169: His The neocene lake beds of western Montana, 1899 (hdg.: Douglass, Earl, 1862- ; usage: Earl Douglass) National Park Service, website viewed December 1, 2015 (Earl Douglass; born in Minnesota in 1862; studied and taught sciences in the Midwest; in 1902 joined staff of the Carnegia Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; began looking for dinosaur fossils in the Uinta Basin in 1908; found the quarry that became Dinosaur National Monument; Died in 1931) Archives West, website viewed December 1, 2015 (Earl Douglass, 1862-1931; paleontologist; born in Medford, Minnesota 23 October 1862; studied at the University of Dakota and made the first plant collection for an herbarium at the South Dakota Agricultural College; assistant at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in Saint Louis; studied botany and plant histology at Shaw School of Botany at Washington University; BS, Iowa State College, 1893; geological explorations in Montana; fellowship in biology at Princeton University; Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh; collected fossil remans from Montana and South Dakota; married Pearl Goetschius of Sheridan, Montana in 1905; explored fossiliferous strata of the Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah; died on January 31, 1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| Associated language | eng |
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