Acknowledgments and Notes
BAIN
From Geological Society of America (GSA) memorial, Proceedings, May 949;
from ISGS Bulletin 60, 1931; and from unpublished notes of M.W. Leighton,
2004.
BAKER
Quotation from Freshwater Snails (Mollusca: gastropoda) of Maine,
Northeastern Naturalist, 1999, Scott M. Martin; biographical
material from obituary in Science, 1942, v.95, no. 2475, p. 568; also
from http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/BakerF.html.
BERGSTROM
Most of the information, much of it verbatim, from the GSA memorial, v.
28, December 1997; other information from Fryxell, Fritiof, Environmental
Geology and Early Contributions, ISGS Reprint 1992-?.
BUHLE
Mostly verbatim from his obituary in Water Equipment News, August
1979; also from unknown correspondent.
CADY
From his GSA memorial, written by Jack A. Simon, 1970.
CHAMBERLIN
From his memorial, GSA Bulletin, v. 40, 1929.
DEWOLF
From ISGS Bulletin 60, 1931; from GSA memorial, 1957; also from unpublished
notes of M.W. Leighton, 2004.
FRYE
From Transactions of Illinois State Academy of Science, v. 76,
nos. 1 & 2, 1983, p. 1165B1179 (ISGS Reprint 1984C); also from
unpublished notes of M.W. Leighton, 2004.
HORBERG
In large part a summary of a GSA memorial by Fritiof Fryxell, Bulletin
of the Geological Society of America, v. 73, 1962
JOHNSON
From GSA memorial, v. 30, December 1999; much is verbatim.
KOSANKE
A more complete biography can be found in his GSA memorial, v. 29, 1998.
LAMAR
Much of the biographical material taken verbatim from GSA memorial (ISGS
Reprint 1981-F); also from M.M. Killey, personal communication.
MACCLINTOCK
This memorial adapted from GSA memorial for Paul MacClintock (no year
noted).
NOÉ
A more complete biography of A.C. Noé, along with a list of his
publications, can be found in Proceedings of the Geological Society
of America for 1939, Pl. 11, p. 219B227.
ROLFE
Sources: Ralph Langenheim, Department of Geology, University of Illinois;
2000 Year in Review; University of Illinois Archives.
SIMON
Memorial information taken, much of it verbatim, from a eulogy by Rabbi
Norman Klein and Simon's 1980 abstract for Perspectives in
Geology.
SMITH, W.C.
Based on or verbatim from unpublished notes of Paul Du Montelle and
Smith's 1985 AIn Memoriam
SMITH, W.H.
From unpublished memo of M.W. Leighton, December 5, 2005.
TOWNLEY
From unpublished notes of M.W. Leighton; also Townley's obituary.
WELLER, J.M.
J. Marvin Weller is recognized as one of the giants of the Survey.
Additional details regarding his life and accomplishments may be found
in his GSA memorial, v. 8, by H. B. Willman. For example, (1) he married
Phyllis Gothwaite in 1923, his sweetheart since the seventh grade; (2)
by 1927, when his father died, Marvin was Head of ISGS Paleontology and
Stratigraphy Sections; (3) he and Harold Wanless introduced the term
"cyclothem" jointly in 1930; (4) he completed and published much of his
father's extensive mapping in southern Illinois; (5) he organized two
symposia, one on Pennsylvanian cyclical sedimentation in 1930 and the
other on Devonian stratigraphy in 1940; (6) he is particularly
remembered for his contributions to Pennsylvanian and Mississippian
stratigraphy; (7) he published a number of papers on Pennsylvanian
invertebrate fossils; (8) he was the principal author in 1945 of the
third edition of the Geologic Map of Illinois (his father was
the principal author of the first in 1906); (9) as part of the World War
II effort, he studied the fluorspar deposits in southern Illinois to help
maintain their production; (10) he became Editor of the Journal of
Paleontology for SEPM in 1942 and continued in that capacity at the
University of Chicago after he left the Survey until 1952.
WILLMAN
Details of Willman's professional career can be found in the GSA memorial,
v. 21, p. 57B64, 1991.
WILSON
Primarily from a GSA memorial written by Jack Simon (ISGS Reprint 1984-G).
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