Samuel Wendell Williston

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially , rather than arboreally . He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera.

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THE GREAT PLAINS (1906) (201)
The Phylogeny and Classification of Reptiles (1917) (81)
History of the Law of Business Corporations before 1800. I (1888) (62)
Cacops, Desmospondylus; new genera of Permian vertebrates (55)
The Osteology of Some American Permian Vertebrates (1914) (52)
North American plesiosaurs Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus (1906) (49)
The skull of Brachauchenius , with observations on the relationships of the plesiosaurs (42)
North American Plesiosaurs Trinacromerum (1908) (41)
A new family of reptiles from the Permian of New Mexico (1911) (34)
A New Plesiosaur from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas (30)
Notice of Some New Reptiles from the Upper Trias of Wyoming (1904) (26)
On the Skull of Nyctodactylus, an Upper Cretaceous Pterodactyl (1902) (25)
On the osteology of Nyctosaurus (Nyctodactylus), with notes on American pterosaurs / By Samuel W. Williston -- ; Oliver Cummings Farrington -- (24)
Restoration of Limnoscelis, a cotylosaur reptile from New Mexico (1912) (22)
ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLESIOSAURIAN SKULL. (1890) (20)
History of the Law of Business Corporations before 1800. II. (Concluded) (1888) (20)
Catalogue of the described species of South American Asilidae (20)
New or Little-Known Permian Vertebrates: Trematops, New Genus (1909) (20)
New Permian Reptiles: Rhachitomous Vertebrae (1910) (19)
THE STOMACH STONES OF THE PLESIOSAURS. (1904) (15)
A description of the skulls of Diadectes lentus and Animasaurus carinatus (1912) (14)
The Relationships and Habits of the Mosasaurs (1904) (14)
Diptera Brasiliana, ab H. H. Smith Collecta. Part I Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae (13)
Broiliellus, a New Genus of Amphibians from the Permian of Texas (1914) (13)
An Interesting Food Habit of the Plesiosaurs (13)
The Permo-Carboniferous of Northern New Mexico (1912) (12)
THE TEMPORAL ARCHES OF THE REPTILIA (1904) (11)
The Fossil Turtles of North America (1908) (11)
Science in Education (1897) (11)
Dipterological Notes and Descriptions (11)
On the osteology of Nyctosaurus (Nyctodactylus) (10)
New genera of Permian reptiles (1915) (10)
A NEW ARMORED DINOSAUR FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF WYOMING. (1905) (10)
Manual of North American Diptera / by Samuel W. Williston. (10)
Permo-carboniferous vertebrates from New Mexico / by E.C. Case, S.W. Williston, and M.G. Mehl. (10)
The Hallopus, Baptanodon, and Atlantosaurus Beds of Marsh (1905) (9)
The skull of Labidosaurus (9)
Selections from Williston's treatise on the law of contracts (9)
The osteology of the reptiles, by Samuel Wendell Williston ... arranged and edited by William King Gregory ... (9)
On the skeleton of nyctodactylus, with restoration (1902) (9)
A Mounted Skeleton of Platecarpus (1910) (9)
The Wing-Finger of Pterodactyls, with Restoration of Nyctosaurus (1911) (8)
Labidosaurus Cope, a Lower Permian Cotylosaur Reptile from Texas (1917) (8)
Does a Pardon Blot out Guilt (1915) (8)
Liability for Honest Misrepresentation (1911) (8)
Restoration of Seymouria Baylorensis Broili, an American Cotylosaur (1911) (8)
The Skull and Extremities of Diplocaulus (1908) (7)
On the North American Asilidae (Dasypogoninae, Laphrinae), with a new genus of Syrphidae (7)
Synopsis of the families and genera of North American diptera (7)
The Skulls of Araeoscelis and Casea, Permian Reptiles (1913) (7)
Trimerorhachis, a Permian Temnospondyl Amphibian (1915) (7)
Second report of the Committee on the Nomenclature of the Cranial Elements in the Permian Tetrapoda (6)
Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae (6)
LYSOROPHUS, A PERMIAN URODELE (1908) (6)
Chalk from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. (1890) (6)
NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN PERMIAN VERTEBRATES. PARIOTICHUS (1909) (6)
The Skeleton of Trimerorhachis (1916) (6)
Notes and descriptions of North American Tabanidæ (5)
AN ANCESTRAL LIZARD FROM THE PERMIAN OF TEXAS. (1913) (5)
A NEW SOUTH AMERICAN GENUS OF CONOPINAE (1888) (5)
THE ANTENNÆ OF DIPTERA ; A STUDY IN PHYLOGENY (1907) (5)
The osteology of some American permian vertebrates II . Synopsis of the American permocarboniferous tetrapoda (5)
On the North American Asilidae (Part II) (5)
SPECIALIZATION IN EDUCATION. (1903) (5)
Repudiation of Contracts (5)
Ostodolepis Brevispinatus, a New Reptile from the Permian of Texas (1913) (5)
Sphenacodon Marsh, A Permocarboniferous Theromorph Reptile from New Mexico. (1916) (5)
American Permian vertebrates, by Samuel W. Williston ... (4)
Structure of the Plesiosaurian Skull (1890) (4)
Notes and Descriptions of Mydaidae (4)
Consideration in Bilateral Contracts (1914) (4)
Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae by Samuel W. Williston. (4)
The Age of Mammals in Europe, Asia and North America . By Henry Fairfield Osborn. Illustrated. New York, The Macmillan Co. 1910. (1911) (4)
On the Rhopalomeridae (4)
The Niobrara Cretaceous of Western Kansas (4)
The Ankylosauridae (1908) (4)
A FOSSIL MAN FROM KANSAS. (1902) (4)
New or little-known Diptera (4)
The evolution of vertebrae.The osteology of some American permian vertebrates III . (3)
The Primitive Structure of the Mandible in Amphibians and Reptiles (1913) (3)
Protective Secretions of Species of Eleodes (3)
The Faunal Relations of the Early Vertebrates (1909) (3)
American Jurassic Dinosaurs (3)
On the structure of the brain-case in certain Lower Permian tetrapods. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 35, article 31. (3)
A New Turtle from the Kansas Cretaceous (3)
What is a Species? (1908) (3)
The Effect of a National Bankruptcy Law upon State Laws (1909) (3)
NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN SYRPHIDÆ (1882) (3)
A New Genus and Species of American Theromorpha: Mycterosaurus longiceps (1915) (3)
American Amphicœlian Crocodiles (1906) (3)
Two remarkable new genera of Diptera (3)
The Risk of Loss after an Executory Contract of Sale in the Common Law (1895) (3)
An Explanation of the Rope of Maggots. (1894) (3)
Contracts for the Benefit of a Third Person (1902) (3)
III.—The Fingers of Pterodactyls (1904) (3)
The North American species of Conops (3)
Dragons of the Air, an Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles (1902) (2)
Water reptiles of the past and present / by Samuel Wendell Williston. (2)
The Pleistocene of Kansas (2)
"The Oldest Known Reptile.": Isodectes Punctulatus Cope (1908) (2)
THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF NEMISTRINIDÆ (1883) (2)
The Prairie Dog, Owl and Rattlesnake (1878) (2)
Some Common Errors in the Nomenclature of the Dipterous Wing (2)
Collection and preservation of Diptera (2)
A new tachinid with remarkable antennae (1895) (2)
Notes on Asilidae (2)
SOME OSTEOLOGICAL TERMS. (1903) (2)
Rhopalomera Xanthops, Sp. Nov. (2)
Dipterous larvae from the western alkaline lakes and their use as human food (2)
New Neotropical Erax in the American Museum of Natural History (Diptera, Asilidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 334 (2)
Hilarimorpha and Apiocera (2)
Camptopelta, a New Genus of Stratiomyidæ. (1917) (2)
Restorations of Some American Permocarboniferous Amphibians and Reptiles (1914) (2)
Transfers of After-Acquired Personal Property (1906) (2)
On the hind limb of Protostega. (1902) (2)
A NEW GROUP OF PERMIAN AMPHIBIANS. (1908) (2)
AN ANOMALOUS BOMBYLID (1879) (1)
A new genus of Hippoboscidae (1)
Some interesting new Diptera (1)
Is the Right of an Assignee of a Chose in Action Legal or Equitable (1916) (1)
On the genus Erax (1)
Further evidence on the structure of the Eosuchia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 51, article 3. (1)
ON THE HABITS OF AMBLYCHILA CYLINDRIFORMIS (1877) (1)
Successive Promises of the Same Performance (1894) (1)
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN XYLOPHAGIDÆ AND STRATIOMYIDÆ (1885) (1)
The Right to Follow Trust Property When Confused with Other Property (1888) (1)
The Right of a Seller of Goods to Recover the Price (1907) (1)
Bibliography of North American dipterology, 1878-1895 (1)
North American plesiosaurs : by Samuel W. Williston -- ; Oliver C. Farrington -- (1)
Manual of the families and genera of the North American Diptera by Samuel W. Williston. (1)
The Conrad Fissure (1908) (1)
ON THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE DIPTERA. (1893) (1)
What Constitutes an Express Warranty in the Law of Sales (1908) (1)
Has Evolution "Collapsed"?: A Symposium by Scientists (1913) (1)
The American Antelope (1877) (1)
VERTEBRATES FROM THE KANSAS PERMIAN. (1897) (1)
The dinosaurian genus Creosaurus, Marsh (1901) (1)
The Law Governing Sales of Goods at Common Law (1924) (1)
THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CULICIDÆ (1906) (1)
An Explanation of the Rope of Maggots (1894) (1)
The American genera of Sapromyzinae (1)
Kansas Mosasaurs. (1891) (1)
A New Cattle Pest (1889) (1)
Eine merkwürdige neue Syrphiden-Gattung (1)
Contracts for the Benefit of a Third Person in the Civil Law (1902) (1)
On the genus Dolichomyia with the description of a new species from Colorado (1)
Notes on Tachinidae (1)
Representation and Warranty in Sales. Heilbut v. Buckleton (1913) (1)
The Progress of Science Since the Foundation of the Kansas Academy of Science (1918) (1)
The Stomach Stones of the Plesiosaurs (1904) (1)
Cases on the engineering contracts : a selection of cases from cases on the law of contracts (0)
The Word "Equitable" and Its Application to the Assignment of Choses in Action (1918) (0)
Implied Warranties under the Uniform Bills of Lading Act (1927) (0)
Unrecorded Conditional Sales in Bankruptcy (1911) (0)
A VOTE ON THE PRIORITY RULE BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS, CENTRAL BRANCH. (1912) (0)
Releases and Covenants Not to Sue Joint, or Joint and Several Debtors (0)
THE LARAMIE CRETACEOUS OF WYOMING. (1902) (0)
Ueber Erythrosuchus, Vertreter der neuen Reptilordnung Pelycosimia. F. von Huene (1911) (0)
THE RED-BEDS OF KANSAS. (1899) (0)
SCIENCE AND POLITICS. (1899) (0)
Ueber Mallota cimbiciformis Fall (0)
Restatement of the law of contracts : official draft (0)
On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies) / by Professor Samuel Wendell Williston. (Dolichopodidae and Phoridae, by Professor J. M. Aldrich) (0)
Dependency of Mutual Promises in the Civil Law (1899) (0)
An Interpretation of Section 35 of the Uniform Bills of Lading Act (1926) (0)
The Uniform Partnership Act, with Some Remarks on Other Uniform Commercial Laws (0)
THE FIRST REVISER OF SPECIES. (1907) (0)
A LIST OF SPECIES OF DIPTERA FROM SAN DOMINGO (1893) (0)
On the North American Asilidae (Dasypogoninae, Laphrinae), with a new genus of Syrphidae by S.W. Williston. (0)
Uniform Laws Annotated: Commentaries on Conditional Sales at Common Law, under Various State Statutes and under the Uniform Conditional Sales Act (1925) (0)
North American Tachinidæ Gonia / by S.W. Williston. (0)
An Ambiguity in the Negotiable Instruments Law (1910) (0)
PHYSIOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS. (1901) (0)
Bulletin of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. Articles 7-23 (0)
North American Tachinidæ (0)
Has the American College Failed to Fulfil its Function? (1909) (0)
Miocene Edentates (1898) (0)
The Red-Beds of Kansas (1899) (0)
The Screw-Worm Fly, Compsomyia Macellaria (0)
The North American Psychodidæ by S.W. Williston. (0)
The Law of Sales of Stocks and Bonds (1916) (0)
River-Pollution in Connecticut (1889) (0)
Table of the Families of Diptera (0)
A New Dicotyline Mammal from the Kansas Pliocene. (1894) (0)
Paleontology: Part II. Carboniferous and Cretaceous (0)
Notes and descriptions of North American Tabanidæ by S.W. Williston. (0)
Principles of Contracts at Law and in Equity. A Treatise on the General Principles concerning the Validity of Agreements (1906) (0)
THE FUTURE OF THE SIGMA XI. (1917) (0)
Vertebrates from the Kansas Permian (1897) (0)
The Effect of One Void Promise in a Bilateral Agreement (1925) (0)
The Law of Contracts, Volumes II, III and IV (1921) (0)
THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (1901) (0)
The Validity of Attachments Made Abroad by Creditors of an Insolvent Debtor (1891) (0)
Bibliography of North American dipterology, 1878-1895 by S.W. Williston. (0)
Notice of Some Vertebrate Remains from the Kansas Permian (0)
The North American species of Conops by S.W. Williston. (0)
The North American Psychodidæ (0)
A treatment of the fundamental principles of the law of contracts : with digests of cases contained in the second editions of Keener's and Williston's casebooks, and leading cases in other casebooks on contracts (0)
On the classification of the reptiles. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 51, article 2. (0)
Report of the Special Committee on Legislative Drafting (0)
Wald's Pollock on Contracts. Third American from the Seventh English Edition (1906) (0)
A New Dicotyline Mammal from the Kansas Pliocene (1894) (0)
Sales of Goods at Common Law and under the Uniform Sales Act (1909) (0)
Dialysis and Triptotricha (0)
On the Adult Male Plumage of Wilson's Phalarope (0)
New exotic Diptera in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum novitates ; no. 200 (0)
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. (0)
The Cotylosauria (1908) (0)
Article III.-FURTHER EVIDENCE ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EOSUCHIA BY R. BROOM (0)
Animals of the Past (1902) (0)
Pelycosauria of North America (1908) (0)
The Law of Contracts. Volume V, Forms (1922) (0)
Rescission for Breach of Warranty (1903) (0)
The Teaching of Physiology in the Public Schools (1901) (0)
THE PELYCOSAURIAN MANDIBLE. (1913) (0)
On the Structure of the Kansas Chalk (0)
A new species of Criorhinia, with notes on synonymy (0)
Animals of the Past . By Frederic A. Lucas. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co. 1901. (1902) (0)
A hairy human family. (1887) (0)
Delivery as a Requisite in the Sale of Chattel Property (1922) (0)
Discharge of Contracts by Alteration. II (1904) (0)
Accord and Satisfaction (1904) (0)
A New Group of Permian Amphibians (1908) (0)
The Pelycosaurian Mandible (1913) (0)
The Progress of the Law, 1919-1920 (1921) (0)
The Study of Law in Colleges of the United States (1893) (0)
Note on the Habits of Some of the Rarer Cincindelae (0)
A Course in Vertebrate Anatomy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrate Animals. H. S. Pratt (1907) (0)
Wald's Pollock on Contracts (1906) (0)
The North American species of Nemistrinidæ by S.W. Williston. (0)
Kansas Mosasaurs (1891) (0)
A Symposium on the Classification and Nomenclature of Geologic Time-Divisions (1898) (0)
The First Reviser of Species (1907) (0)
Sales of Goods (1925) (0)
Rescission by Parol Agreement (1904) (0)
On the Genus Thlipsogaster Rond (0)
A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts. Volume II (1894) (0)
Commercial and banking law : prepared for American Institute of Banking (0)

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