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On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies): Dolichopodidæ and Phoridœ (Classic Reprint)
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Face yellow. Antennae as long as the wings, yellow, the joints alternately double, With their petioles as long as the thickened portion. Mesonotum Opaque red; two slender stripes and the middle portion behind yellov'v. Abdomen reddish-yellow. Legs black; the distal two-fifths of the front femora, the immediate tip of the hind femora, the tip of the hind tibiae a broad ring on the second, third, and fourth joints of all the tarsi, and the terminal portion of the fifth joint, light yellow. Wings With' black hair, forming irregular markings third vein gently curved, terminating just beyond the tip of the Wing. Length 15 mm.
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Synopsis of the North American Syrphidæ (Classic Reprint)
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It has been prepared at the request of the Institution, and printed by authority of the honorable Secretary of the Interior.
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Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (Classic Reprint)
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In many respects the internal structure of the amphibians of the present time is widely different from that of reptiles, though there can be no doubt that the early amphibian ancestors of the modern toads, frogs, and salamanders were also the ancestors of all living and extinct reptiles, and it is a fact that the living amphib ians differ more from some of the ancient ones than those early amphibians did from their contemporary reptiles. Discoveries in recent years have bridged over nearly all the essential differ ences between the two classes so completely that many forms can not be classified unless one has their nearly complete skeletons. We know that some of the oldest amphibians, belonging to the great division called Stegocephalia, were really water-breathers during a part of their lives, because distinct impressions of their branchiae, or water-breathing organs, have been discovered in the rocks with their skeletal remains, but we are not at all sure that some of the more highly developed kinds were not air-breathers from the time they left the egg; indeed, we rather suspect that such was the case.
We are also now quite certain that, from some of the early extinct reptiles - the immediate forbears probably of the great dinosaurs - the class of birds arose, since the structural relation ships between birds and reptiles are almost as close as those between reptiles and amphibians.
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IN this book we have the chief results of Williston's half-century of exploration and research in the field of vertebrate palaeontology. Here we find the gist of his earlier researches upon the mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs of the marine Cretaceous of Kansas, the substance of his later and fundamental discoveries among the primi tive reptiles of the Permian of Texas, and the epitome of his last, comprehensive survey of the evolution of the Reptilia as a whole. The writing of this book was thus the culminating effort and achieve~ ment of his inspiring career.1 Death overtook him before the final revision and completion of this work, but happily not before he had finished the greater part of the text and had made for it with his own pen a large series of new and excellent line-drawings.
In accordance with Williston's wishes the writer undertook to put his last work in shape for the publisher and to see it through the press. For the long delay since 1918 there have been too many causes to be profitably set forth in detail. The University of Chicago Press, which had published Williston's earlier books, repeatedly found itself unable to accept this one notwithstanding its good will, and private publishers proposed conditions that were not accept able, either to the Williston Memorial Committee, or to Professor Williston's family. After much unsuccessful correspondence in vari ous directions, the sad plight of Williston's still unpublished work came to the notice of Professor Thomas Barbour of Harvard Uni versity, and through his good offices the Harvard University Press now has the honor of publishing the Osteology of the Reptiles.
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Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, paleontologist and dipterist.
Background
Samuel W. Williston was born on July 10, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Williston and Jane A. Turner. On the father's side he was of New England stock, the name having been traced back in Massachusetts as far as 1650. His mother was born in England. His parents removed to Kansas in 1857 under the auspices of the Emigrant Aid Society and settled at Manhattan, where Williston's early education was of the kind available in the pioneer community.
Education
In 1866 he entered the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan and in 1872 received the degree of B. S. Though he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of a local physician in 1873, he was employed in that year and the following one by Othniel C. Marsh of Yale University as a collector in the Cretaceous chalk beds of western Kansas.
In 1876 he was called to New Haven by Marsh and remained in his service as collector, preparator, and writer until 1885. During this time he collected in the dinosaur-bearing beds in Colorado and Montana. He also studied medicine and in 1880 received the degree of M. D. from the Yale Medical School.
Career
Having received the degree of Ph. D. at Yale (1885), in 1886 he was appointed assistant professor of anatomy and in 1888 professor. He served at Yale until 1890, continuing private practice and acting as health officer of New Haven at the same time.
In 1890 he was called to the University of Kansas, where he was professor of geology and paleontology (1890 - 1892) and professor of historical geology, vertebrate anatomy, and physiology (1892 - 1902).
In 1898 he also became dean of the school of medicine, and for some time served on the state board of health and the board of medical examiners.
While in Kansas he returned to his interest in paleontology, producing a long series of papers upon the reptiles of the Cretaceous. The most important of these were volumes IV (1898) and VI (1900) of The University Geological Survey of Kansas, the first of which contained his classic work on the mosasaurs. Other papers in these volumes were written by the group of students that he had trained in paleontological work.
Among his many activities in Kansas was the publication of a large number of papers upon Diptera. He began in this field when there was not a dipterist on the continent. Lacking guidance and sufficient literature, he made slow progress in spite of great effort until he discovered Ignaz R. Schiner's Fauna Austriaca (1860), in which he found the Austrian Diptera ably analyzed into their families, genera and species. He was so profoundly impressed with the plan of this work that it largely shaped his later work on the order; he was always trying to analyze and simplify for the help of beginners. The climax of this work was the publication in 1908 of his Manual of North American Diptera, a greatly enlarged revision of his two earlier publications on Diptera (1888, 1896), which, besides the analytical matter, contained more than eight hundred figures drawn by his own hand. This volume has been used extensively in the Old World, where there has been nothing similar to it. In a more technical way he monographed the Syrphidae of North America and published extensive contributions to Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879 - 1910), with many shorter papers on Diptera. In the decade 1890 - 1900 he easily ranked among the three or four world authorities in the order.
In 1902 he was called to be head of the department of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Chicago, and soon entered upon the exploration of the Permian beds of North America, and the description of their amphibian and reptilian fauna. He described a large number of new forms, and made fundamental contributions to the anatomy and classification of these primitive forms. The most important comprehensive works published during this period were his monographs, American Permian Vertebrates (1911) and Water Reptiles of the Past and Present (1914). His final work, a general description of the osteology of the reptiles, living and extinct, was not completed before his death, but was published posthumously under the editorship of W. K. Gregory as The Osteology of the Reptiles (1925).
Samuel Wendell Williston died on August 30, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, of cancer.
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Membership
Samuel W. Williston was a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London (1902) and of the Zoological Society of London, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, president of the Sigma Xi Society from 1901 to 1904, and a member of the National Academy of Science (1915).
Connections
On December 20, 1880, Samuel Wendell Williston married Annie Isabelle Hathaway, by whom he had five childen.