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"Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:34:22 -0400
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Dear Scott,

You're right; L. O. Howard wrote its foreword.

Harry


At 05:45 AM 10/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Harry & Art,
>
>I have the authorship of that earlier bio as Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M.
>Ziegler.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Jordan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Harry G. Lee [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:   Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:35 AM
>To:     [log in to unmask]
>Subject:        Re: Thomas Say bio
>
>Dear Art,
>
>It seems to me I emailed you about Thomas Say a weil back.  I use the bio
>below; his Florida expedition (basically the Jacksonville area) receives
>detailed attention:
>
>Weiss, H. B. and L. O. Howard, 1931. Thomas Say early American naturalist.
>Charles C. Thomas, Baltimore. pp. 1-260 + xiv + 26 unpaginated plates.
>
>Harry
>
>
>At 08:19 PM 10/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>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
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:   Art Weil [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent:   Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:11 PM
>>To:     [log in to unmask]
>>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
>Harry G. Lee
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>Visit the Jacksonville Shell Club Home Page at:
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>
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Harry G. Lee
Suite 500
1801 Barrs St.
Jacksonville, FL 32204
USA   904-384-6419
<[log in to unmask]>
Visit the Jacksonville Shell Club Home Page at:
http://home.sprynet.com/~wfrank/jacksonv.htm

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