Edward Oscar Ulrich

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Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, in Covington, Kentucky – 22 February 1944, in Washington, D.C.) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils.

Biography

Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College.{{cite web | title=Ulrich, Edward Oscar, 1857–1944, Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers | work=Accession 10-188 | publisher=Smithsonian Institution Archives | url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_293066 | access-date=9 March 2012}} Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History in 1877, and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of Illinois, Minnesota, and Ohio, also associate editor for ten years of the American Geologist.

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa, Gastropoda, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda. In 1930, he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences,{{cite web|title=Mary Clark Thompson Medal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=14 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195631/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson |archive-date=29 December 2010 }} and he was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1932.

In 1926, with Ray S. Bassler, he described the conodont genus Ancyrodella,A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926

Legacy

An extinct species of graptolite, Climacograptus ulrichi, was named for him in 1908.{{Cite journal|last=Ruedemann|first=Rudolph|date=1908|title=Graptolites of New York, Part 2, Graptolites of the Higher Beds|journal=New York State Museum Memoir|volume=11|pages=412–413, 364–365, pl. 28, figs. 10, 11}}

Bactritimimus ulrichi, an extinct Carboniferous belemnite, was named in honor of Ulrich in 1959.{{Cite journal|last1=Flower|first1=Rousseau H.|last2=Gordon Jr.|first2=Mackenzie|date=September 1959|title=More Mississippian belemnites|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300916|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=33|issue=5|pages=809–842|jstor=1300916}}

In 2002, an extinct genus of monoplacophrans, Ulrichoconus, was named in his honor for his geological studies of the Ozark Plateaus.{{cite journal |last1=Stinchcomb |first1=Bruce |last2=Angeli |first2=Nicholas |title=New Cambrian and Lower Ordovician monoplacophorans form the Ozark Uplift, Missouri |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=2002 |volume=76 |issue=6 |pages=965–974|doi=10.1017/S0022336000057802 |bibcode=2002JPal...76..965S |s2cid=232348206 }}

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References

[http://siarchives.si.edu/findingaids/FARU7332.htm Smithsonian Institution Archives – Record Unit 7332 – Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers] William Cox
{{Cite journal |last=Ruedemann |first=Rudolf |url=http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/eulrich.pdf|journal=National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs|volume=XXIV|title=Edward Oscar Ulrich 1857–1944}}

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