Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble,
Title: Fossils and Flies: the life of a compleat scientist Samuel Wendell Williston (1851-1918).
Description: Norman, OK, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1971). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ ex-library. Williston achieved world-wide fame in two scientific fields as wiedly apart as vertegrate paleontology and assistant to Yale's. noted paleontologist O. C. Marsh, known for his reconstructions of prehistoric monsters and their fossil remains, and his hobby of collecting and classifying flies led to recognition as the foremost authority foremost authority on Diptera. Born in Boston in 1951, Williston was taken to Manhattan, Kansas with a deep hunger for knowledge and where he laid the groundwork for his later illustrious career in paleontology. Writing to a former student about his investigations of certain prehistoric vertebrates he bemoaned the fact that "The more we study these things, the more we don't know about them." Library markings, owner inscription front endpaper.

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