John Campbell Merriam (1869-1945),US palaeontologist,educator,and conservationist. Merriam studied at the University of California,and then in Munich under German palaeontologist Karl von Zittel. Merriam spent most of his career at the University of California. He led the Saurian Expedition of 1905 to Nevada that uncovered some of the best known specimens of ichthyosaur. From 1912,he led the Department of Paleontology. He left the university in 1920,moving to become president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918. This photograph dates from the period 1905 to 1945 | |
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