古脊椎动物

古脊椎动物收藏的历史

The collections were begun under the guidance of prominent Cincinnati physician Daniel Drake 和 The Western Museum Society in 1818 和 continued by members of the Western Academy of Natural 科学s (1835), the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (1870) 和 the Cincinnati 自然历史博物馆 (1957). All of these institutions were predecessors 和 lineal ancestors of 辛辛那提博物馆中心. 撒母耳一个. Miller was the first Curator of Paleontology of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (1871-1874), 紧随其后的是约翰·W. 大厅,小. (1874-1877)，爱德华. 乌尔里希(1877-1880)，约翰·米克尔伯勒(1880-1884)，爱德华·M. 库珀(1884-1885)和查尔斯. 法布尔(1885 - 1886). 综合地质系成立于1889年, 但直到1986年, with the appointment of the first 古脊椎动物 curator (H. 格雷戈里·麦克唐纳), that a separate Department of 古脊椎动物 was carved out of the general fossil collection. 格伦·W. 1995年，斯托斯被任命为馆长, 和 the position was permanently endowed by a generous community benefactor in 2009. The 1998 transfer of the 辛辛那提大学 paleontology collection (begun in 1907) to the Museum 和 an intensive program of research-oriented excavations created the lower 俄亥俄州 Valley's largest vertebrate fossil collection, 现在大约有30人,000个标本(超过16,000 of which are currently catalogued on the Museum's KeEMu database server). The university collection includes specimens amassed by professors, 学生, 以及业余地质学家干挖泥船协会 & Fossil Collectors, the oldest amateur paleontology society in the United States, founded in 1942. Noted vertebrate paleontologist Donald Baird was curator of the university collection from 1949 to 1951. The combined collection was moved to the 盖尔收藏与研究中心 facility on Gest Street in 2001. In 2018, the University of Minnesota’s paleontology collection (established in 1872) was transferred to CMC, adding several thous和 additional specimens to the VP collection.