Samuel Wendell Williston (1851-1918)

Vertebrate paleontologist and dipterologist, employee of Marsh, key figure in the early history of natural science at Kansas and Chicago.

Willison in 1891. From Shor, p. 48.

Career:

Assistant, O. Marsh, Yale Peabody Museum, 1876-1890
Professor, University of Kansas, 1890-1902
Professor, University of Chicago, 1902-1918

Studied under:

Students:

B. Brown (Kansas)
E. C. Case (Kansas)
C. E. McClung (Kansas)

Colleagues:

G. Baur (Chicago)
T. C. Chamberlin (Chicago)
C. O. Whitman (Chicago)

Key publications:

Synopsis of the Families and Genera of North American Diptera (1888: later editions with different titles in 1896, 1908)
American Permian Vertebrates (1911)
The Osteology of the Reptiles (1925)

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