Art,

An excellent book is "Thomas Say, New World Naturalist" by Patricia Tyson Stroud, University of Pennsylvania, 1992, IBSN 0-8122-3103-1.

Regards,

Scott Jordan

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From:   Art Weil [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject:        Re: Exogyra

Dear Andrew;-
        Is there, to your knowledge, a decent biography of Thomas Say? His
connection to Cincinnati is that his "Types" were deposited with Columbia
College; which, in turn, released them to Dr. Brand---who donated them to the
Cincinnati Museum of Nat. Hist. We got 'em!
        Art

"Andrew K. Rindsberg" wrote:

> Hi Harry,
>
> No problem. The "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" is published by the
> Geological Society of America:
>
> http://www.geosociety.org/
>
> Exogyra costata was named in this article (v. 2, p. 43; 1820):
>
> Say, Thomas, 1819-20, Observations on some species of zoophytes, shells, &c.
> principally fossil: American Journal of Science & Arts, series 1, v. 1, no.
> 4, p. 381-387 (1819); v. 2, no. 1, p. 34-45 (1820).
>
> --which I think was reprinted 76 years later in:
>
> Say, Thomas, 1896, A reprint of the paleontological writings of Thomas Say;
> with an introduction by G. D. Harris: Bulletins of American Paleontology, v.
> 1, no. 5, p. 271-354.
>
> --a publication that might be slightly more accessible.
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama