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Lull, Richard Swann was born on November 6, 1867 in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. Son of Captain Edward P. (United States Navy) and Elizabeth F. (Burton) L.
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Richard Swann Lull, American paleontologist. Recipient Elliot medal, National Academy Sciences for 1933; Society of Colonial Wars. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Geological Society America, Paleontological Society (treasurer 1911-1924, president 1925); member Society Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum Natural History (honorary life), Chi Psi, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Rutgers University, 1893, Master of Science, 1896, honorary Doctor of Science, 1918. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1903. Honorary Master of Arts, Yale, 1911.
Career
With division entomology United States Department of Agriculture, 1893. Assistant and associate professor zoölogy Massachusetts State College, 1894-1906. Assistant professor vertebrate paleontology Yale, 1906-1911, professor, 1911-1923, professor paleontology, 1923-1927, Sterling professor paleontology, 1927-1936, now emeritus.
Associate curator of vertebrate paleontology Peabody Museum, Yale, 1906-1920, curator vertebrate paleontology, 1920-1926, honorary curator, since 1932, director, 1922-1936, acting director, 1937-1938, now emeritus.
Associate fellow Jonathan Edwards College, Yale. Lecturer on paleontology University of California, summers 1925, 35, 37, Harvard, 1939.
Instructor seamanship United States Navy Training Unit, Yale, 1917-1918.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Geological Society America, Paleontological Society (treasurer 1911-1924, president 1925). Member Society Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum Natural History (honorary life), Chi Psi, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Clara Coles Boggs, July 2, 1894.
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April 22, 1957 (aged 89) -
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Buried Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven. -
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Episcopalian