Background
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland was born on September 20, 1870 in Jonesville, Texas, United States. Son of Doctor Samuel Floyd and Annie R. (Hope) Vaughan.
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland was born on September 20, 1870 in Jonesville, Texas, United States. Son of Doctor Samuel Floyd and Annie R. (Hope) Vaughan.
Bachelor of Science, Tulane University, 1889, Doctor of Science, 1944. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893, Master of Arts, 1894, Doctor of Philosophy, 1903. Doctor of Laws, University of British Columbia, 1933, University of California, 1936.
Studied music in Europe.
One daughter, Caroline Ely (Mistress James H. Fortune, Junior). Engaged in geologic and paleontologic researches, with United States Geological Survey, 1894-1923. Geologist in charge Coastal Plain investigations, 1907-1923, senior geologist 1924-1928, principal scientist, 1928-1939.
Retired.
Custodian of Madreporarian corals, United States National Museum, 1903-1923. Associate in marine sediments, 1924-1942, in paleontology since 1942. Director Scripps Institute of University of California, Louisiana Jolla, 1924-1936, director emeritus since 1936.
Specialist on tertiary geology, fossil and recent corals, larger Foraminifera, and marine sediments.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Science, American Philosophical Society, California Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (president Pacific division 1930-1931), Geological Society America (1st vice president 1938, president 1939), Association American Geographers, Paleontological Society (president 1923), Washington Academy Science (president 1923). Member National Academy Sciences, American Geophysical Union (chairman oceanography section 1926-1928), Geological Society of Washington (president 1915). Member Zoölogical Society of London, Academy Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Konk.
National Ver.
Nederl.-Indiana, Society Geograf., Cuba, foreign. Member Linnean Society, foreign fellow Geological Society, London. Member Geological Society, Peru.
United States delegate 1st Pan-Pacific Science Conference, Honolulu, 1920 (chairman section geology).
Member division geology and geography, National Research Council, 1919-1926. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Dorothy Q. Upham, March 22, 1909 (deceased, August 18, 1949).
