Henry Shaler Williams
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Henry Shaler Williams's Degrees
- Bachelors Geology Cornell University
- PhD Geology Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry Shaler Williams was an American geologist. He was the son of State Senator Josiah B. Williams . He graduated from Yale College and studied with Louis Agassiz at Cornell University. In 1871, he taught for a year at Transylvania University and then worked in business with his father in Ithaca, New York until joining the Cornell University faculty in 1879. From 1892 to 1904 he was Professor of Geology at Yale University and Professor of Geology at Cornell University from 1904 until 1912 when he was named Emeritus Professor.
Henry Shaler Williams's Published Works
Published Works
- The Discrimination of Time-Values in Geology (1901) (32)
- The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution (1896) (28)
- Contributions to the geology of Maine (16)
- Fossil faunas and their use in correlating geological formations (1902) (12)
- Dual Nomenclature in Geological Classification (1894) (12)
- On the southern Devonian formations (1897) (9)
- ON THE THEORY OF ORGANIC VARIATION. (1897) (9)
- Studies for Students: The Elements of the Geological Time-Scale (1893) (8)
- The Making of the Geological Time-Scale (1893) (7)
- On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian: the Genesee Section, New York (6)
- Eastport folio, Maine (6)
- Channel fillings in upper Devonian shales (1881) (6)
- On a Crinoid with Movable Spines (5)
- Some new Mollusca from the Silurian formations of Washington County, Maine (1912) (5)
- New species of Silurian fossils from the Edmunds and Pembroke formations of Washington County, Maine (5)
- On the fossil faunas of the Upper Devonian, along the meridian of 76 degrees 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania (4)
- The Dalmanellas of the Chemung formation, and a closely related new brachiopodgenus Thiemella (4)
- Nuculites from the Silurian formations of Washington County, Maine (4)
- The Theory of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. (1888) (4)
- Silurian-Devonian boundary in North America; I, The Chapman Sandstone fauna (1900) (4)
- Correlation of the Paleozoic faunas of the Eastport Quadrangle, Maine (3)
- Shifting of faunas as a problem of stratigraphic geology (3)
- On the revision of the mollusk genus Pterinea Goldfuss (3)
- On a remarkable fauna at the base of the Chemung group in New York (1883) (3)
- The Classification of Stratified Rocks (1898) (3)
- The Devonian Section of Ithaca, N. Y. Part II: The Discrimination of the Nunda-Chemung Boundary (1907) (3)
- Persistence of fluctuating variations as illustrated by the fossil genus rhipidomella (2)
- Notice of a new limuloid crustacean from the Devonian (1885) (2)
- On the age of the manganese beds of the Batesville region of Arkansas (1894) (2)
- Bearing of some new paleontologic facts on nomenclature and classification of sedimentary formations (2)
- On the different types of the Devonian system in North America (1888) (2)
- Silurian-Devonian boundary in North America. (2)
- On the Origin of the Chouteau Fauna (1896) (1)
- On the ventral plates of the carapace of the genus Holonema of Newberry (1893) (1)
- The Devonian Section of Ithaca, N. Y. (1906) (1)
- The Life‐History of Spirifer lævis, Hall:—a Palæontological Study (1882) (1)
- Correlation Problems Suggested by a Study of the Faunas of the Eastport Quadrangle, Maine (1)
- Devonian Lamellibranchiata and species making (1886) (1)
- THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF FOSSILS. (1901) (1)
- On the recurrence of Devonian fossils in strata of Carboniferous age (1895) (1)
- [Williams, Henry] 1792-1867. Attributed works :Old mission house at Paihia. [1843?] (0)
- PAL.EONTOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. (1880) (0)
- An Introduction to Geology (1897) (0)
- DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (0)
- Paleontological Researches (1880) (0)
- The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology (1899) (0)
- A new brachiopod, Rensselaeria mainensis, from the Devonian of Maine (0)
- Abstract of some paleontological studies of the life history of Spirifer laevis H (1880) (0)
- The spirifers of the upper Devonian. (1884) (0)
- The Devonian interval in northern Arkansas (1899) (0)
- Record Unit 7238 Henry Shaler Williams Papers, circa 1880-1916 and undated (0)
- The Theory of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1888) (0)
- Watkins Glenn-Catatonk folio, New York (0)
- James Dwight Dana and His Work as a Geologist (1895) (0)
- Methods of Instruction in General Geology (1887) (0)
- The Devonian system of North and South Devonshire [and comparison with the Devonian of the Appalachian basin] (1890) (0)
- Migration and shifting of Devonian faunas (0)
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