耶鲁大学古植物学

---门庭冷落的学院派

   耶鲁大学创建于1701年，其校训（或座右铭）是用希伯来文和拉丁文写的，意思是追求“光明和真理”。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University

∮ 1  金融家、实业家和慈善家George Peabody（1795--1869）在1866年捐资给耶鲁大学兴建了一座自然历史博物馆(即“Yale Peabody Museum”)。这座博物馆历史悠久，是北美地区大学所属自然历史博物馆中最有名的一个。

          2001年，Yale Peabody Museum完成“环境科学中心”（Environmental Science Facility）的扩建工程，标本的馆藏和研究条件得到较大改善。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peabody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Museum_of_Natural_History

∮ 2   近一个半世纪以来，Yale Peabody Museum对北美地区乃至全世界的自然历史之教学、科研和社会服务发挥重要作用。总的来讲，耶鲁大学的地质古生物学知名学者很多，成就辉煌。

    在华语世界，人们时常津津乐道的胡适先生（1891--1962）的美国朋友-- Edith Clifford Williams (1885--1971)的父亲Henry Shaler Williams (1847--1918)曾在耶鲁求学，并于1892--1904年担任耶鲁大学地质学教授。Henry Shaler Williams是Elias Howard Sellards (1875--1961)的博士学位论文导师之一。

    已故美国科学院院士、专攻无脊椎动物化石的地层古生物学家Carl Owen Dunbar（1891--1979）担任耶鲁大学地质学教授39年（1920--1959年）。已故中国科学院院士、地层古生物学家--杨遵仪先生（1908--2009）曾在耶鲁跟随Carl Owen Dunbar教授学习。杨遵仪1939年毕业于耶鲁大学，获博士学位。杨遵仪是在耶鲁大学专攻地层古生物学的第一个中国人。

Carl Owen Dunbar（1891--1979）

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Owen_Dunbar

与仁者相遇：琐忆好人好老师好院士杨遵仪先生（1908—2009）

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-256916.html

∮ 3    自然历史研究中的各个门类之发展往往是不平衡的。化石植物的研究一般不会像恐龙那样受大众关注和喜欢。

    耶鲁大学第一位专供化石植物研究的博士研究生是George Reber Wieland (1865--1953)。他本来想跟随著名地质古生物学家、美国科学院院士Othniel Charles Marsh（1831--1899）从事脊椎动物化石的研究。他到耶鲁后改变了研究方向--主要从事化石苏铁的研究。1900年，George Reber Wieland在耶鲁获得博士学位，为耶鲁大学培养的第1位古植物学博士。此后，他一直在耶鲁从事古植物学研究，直到20世纪40年代退休。George Reber Wieland的传世之作为两本很厚重巨著----《美国化石苏铁》（American Fossil Cycads），分别完成于1906年和1916年。

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-331226.html

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-403165.html

    耶鲁大学古植物学有100多年的发展历程，其人气一直不旺。Leo J. Hickey教授（1940--2013）是耶鲁大学第一位古植物学教授(full professor)，1982年开始供职于耶鲁大学，直到他2013年去世，服务耶鲁30年。

专业精神的榜样----耶鲁大学古植物学家Leo J. Hickey教授

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-486065.html

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-661477.html

我和Leo J. Hickey教授唯一一张合影在这里：

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-826366.html

我收到Leo J. Hickey教授的最后一个电子邮件（2012年5月30日）:

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-703389.html

        100多年来，耶鲁大学培养的古植物学博士之数量少得可怜，但不乏杰出人才，如：George Reber Wieland，Walter Andrew Bell，Estella B. Leopold (NAS), David Leonard Dilcher (NAS)等。

孙启高 2014年11月8日

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古植物学的故事235期[总第236期]

Story of Palaeobotany Series (No.235) [The 236^th issue in total]

Umbrella of American palaeobotany-6: A historical sketch of palaeobotany of Yale University with a list of graduate students and their thesis      

耶鲁大学古植物学：门庭冷落的学院派

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-842175.html

2014-11-9 06:16

Catalogue of Amhercian palaeobotany unmbrella--9 Nov 2014.pdf

附录：耶鲁大学涉及古植物学的学位论文清单

∮ 1  

• Author/Creator:Wieland, G. R. (GeorgeReber), 1865-1953.

• Title:A study of American fossil cycads / by G.R.Wieland.

• Published/Created:1900.

• Physical Description:156 leaves ; 28 cm.

• Local Notes:SML,MSS: Archival     copy. Patrons must use film available in Microtext Room.

• Format:Archives or     Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.     D.)--Yale University, 1900.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4745378

∮ 2

• Author/Creator:Bell, W. A. (Walter Andrew),1889-

• Title:The Mississippian formations of theHorton-Windsor district, Nova Scotia. By Walter A. Bell ...

• Published/Created:[New Haven, 1921]

• Physical Description:p. 153-173. illus. (maps) 24 cm.

• Notes:Cover-title.
  "Contributions     from the Paleontological laboratory, Peabody museum, Yale     university."
  "From     the American journal of science, vol. I, February, 1921."

• Format:Book

• Thesis note:Abstract of thesis     (PH. D.)--Yale University, 1920.

• BibliographyBibliography: p.     173.

• Subjects:Geology,     Stratigraphic--Mississippian.
  Paleontology--Mississippian.
  Geology--Nova Scotia.
  Paleontology--Nova Scotia.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1964732

∮ 3    

Elias Howard Sellards (1875--1961) 1903年在耶鲁大学获得PH D，我们尚未检索他的论文题目。

∮ 4    

• Author/Creator:Elias, Maxim K. (MaximKonradovich), 1889-

  1939年在耶鲁大学获得PH D，

• Title:Tertiary prairie grasses and other herbs fromthe high plains, by Maxim K. Elias ...

• Published/Created:[New York] The Society, 1942.

• Physical Description:2 p. l., 176 p. illus. (map) 17 pl. (1 fold.) on 9 l. 25 cm.

• Format:Book

• Series:Geological Society     of America. Special papers, no. 41

• Bibliography"References     cited": p. 147-152.

• Subjects:Grasses, Fossil.
  Paleobotany--Tertiary.
  Paleobotany--West (U.S.)

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/2104263

Tertiaryprairie grasses and other herbs from the high plains,

∮ 5    

• Author/Creator:Leopold, Estella B.

• Title:Climate and vegetation changes during aninterstadial period in southern New England / Estella B. Leopold.

• Published/Created:[New Haven] : 1955.

• Format:Book

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale     University, 1955.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4065054

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Wisconsin vegetation and climate of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Author:JamesGordon Ogden

Publisher:[New Haven, Conn.] : Ogden, 1958.

Dissertation: Yale University

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∮ 6    

• Author/Creator:Eggert, Donald Alan.

• Title:The ontogeny of carboniferous arborescentLycopsida

• Published/Created:New Haven, CT 1960.

• Local Notes:Botany Department     Thesis.

• Format:Book

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.D) --     Yale University, 1960

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4067353

∮ 7    

• Author/Creator:Dilcher, David Leonard.

• Title:Epiphyllous fungi from eocene deposits inwestern Tennessee.

• Published/Created:New Haven, CT 1964.

• Local Notes:Botany Department     Thesis.

• Format:Book

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.D) --     Yale University, 1964

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4088265

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The reproductivebiology of the Mesozoic genus Cycadeoidea

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∮ 8    

• Author/Creator:Wing, Scott L.

• Title:AStudy of Paleoecology and Paleobotanyin the Willwood Formation (Early Eocene, Wyoming) [microform].

• Notes:UMI82-10723

• Format:Archives     or Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, Department of     Biology, 1981.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3162330

∮ 9    

• Author/Creator:Johnson, Kirk R.

• Title:A High-Resolution Megafloral BiostratigraphySpanning the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains[microform].

• Notes:UMI90-16460

• Format:Book

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.     D.)--Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1989.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3093190

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The flora of theEagle Formation and its significance for Late Cretaceous floristic evolution

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∮ 10    

• Author/Creator:Royer, Dana Lee.

• Title:Estimatinglatest cretaceous and tertiary atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration fromstomatal indices [electronic resource]

• ISBN:9780493604312

• Published/Created:2002

• Physical Description: 1 online resource (163 p.)

• In_:Dissertation Abstracts     International 63-03B.

• Format:Archives     or Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2002.

• Also listed under:Yale University.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9843483

∮ 11    

• Author/Creator:Miller, Ian M.

• Title:The taxonomy, paleoecology and paleolatitudeof the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Winthrop Formation flora, Washington State,USA / by Ian M. Miller.

• Published/Created:c2007.

• Physical Description:2 v. (ix, 1157 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 725px.

• Local Notes:SMLMSS: Archival     copy. Patrons must use film available in Microtext Room. Dissertations may     also be available in electronic form to the Yale community. For more     information, consult with a reference librarian.

• Format:Archives or     Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.     D.)--Yale University, 2007.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8121725

∮ 12    

• Author/Creator:Green,Walton Atwater.

• Title:Using leaf architectural data for pheneticecological comparison of modern and fossil forest stands [electronic resource]

• ISBN:9780549066071

• Published/Created:2007

• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 p.)

• In_:Dissertation Abstracts     International 68-06B.

• Format:Archives or     Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale     University, 2007.

• Also listed under:Yale University.

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9844949

∮1 3  

• Author/Creator:Peppe,Daniel James.

• Title:A high resolution chronostratigraphic studyof the early Paleocene floral record in the northern Great Plains [microform] /by Daniel James Peppe.

• Published/Created:c2009.

• Physical Description:xxiii, 590 leaves : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

• Local Notes:SMLMIC:     Dissertations may also be available in electronic form to the Yale     community. For more information, consult with a reference librarian.

• Notes:Microfilm. Ann     Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2009. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

• Format:Archives or     Manuscripts

• Thesis note:Thesis (Ph.     D.)--Yale University, 2009.

• Subjects (Local     Yale):Thesis : Yale University, Graduate School, Geology     & Geophysics.
  UMI     no 3361549

Link to this page: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11403037

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