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THE death of Prof. Charles Schuchert, which occurred on November 20, 1942, removes an eminent American stratigrapher and palaeogeographer, who was also a leading authority on brachiopods. Born at Cincinnati on July 3, 1858, he was early attracted by the richness in fossils of the rocks surrounding his home ; and although he received only a primary school education, which ceased when he was fourteen, he made such good use of his opportunities of collecting that he attracted the attention of the great American palaeontologists of the period. In 1885 he was given employment as assistant in palaeontology to E. O. Ulrich, and later he worked in turn with James Hall and with C. E. Beecher. He worked in connexion with the Geological Survey of Minnesota, and in 1893 became assistant palaeontologist to the United States Geological Survey. In 1894 he was appointed assistant curator in palaeontology at the United States National Museum, where he remained for the next ten years, having opportunities during this period to collect in Europe, Greenland and Canada. In 1904, at Yale University, he became concurrently professor of palaeontology, professor of historical geology in the Sheffield Scientific School, and curator of the geological collections at the Peabody Museum. He remained at Yale for the rest of his life, receiving the title of professor emeritus on his retirement in 1926, and of director emeritus of the Peabody Museum on his eightieth birthday. He received honours from various universities and learned societies; he was president of the Geological Society of America in 1922, and was elected foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of London in 1927 and foreign fellow in 1929.
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ARBER, M. Prof. Charles Schuchert. Nature 152, 15–16 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152015a0
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