Table of Contents - MWR185: Historical Perspective of Early 20th Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North America

Foreword

Photographs of Contributors

William Culp Darrah (1909–1989): A Portrait, Elsie Darrah Morey and Paul C. Lyons

William C. Darrah's European Experience in 1935: Paleobotanical Connections and Stratigraphic Controversies, Elsie Darrah Morey

Correspondence and Plant-Fossil Exchanges Between William C. Darrah and European Paleobotanists, 1932–1951, Elsie Darrah Morey and Paul C. Lyons

History of Significant Collections of Carboniferous (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) Plant Fossils in Museums of the United States, Elsie Darrah Morey and Richard L. Leary

PORTRAITS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN PALEOBOTANISTS

Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (1878–1957): Paleobotanist, Carboniferous Stratigrapher, and Floral Biogeographer, Robert H. Wagner and H. W. J. van Amerom

Walther Gothan (1879–1954): Botanist, Geologist, and Teacher, Winfried Remy, Renate Remy, and Wolfgang Hartung

Paul Bertrand (1879–1944): French Paleobotanist, Jean-Pierre Laveine

Carl Rudolf Florin (1894–1965): A Pioneer in Fossil-Conifer Studies, Elsie Darrah Morey

Marie Stopes (1880–1958): The American Connection, W. G. Chaloner

PORTRAITS OF SELECTED NORTH AMERICAN PALEOBOTANISTS

David White (1862–1935): American Paleobotanist and Geologist, Paul C. Lyons and Elsie Darrah Morey

Reinhardt Thiessen (1867–1938): Pioneering Coal Petrologist and Stratigraphic Palynologist, Paul C. Lyons, with personal recollections by Marlies Teichmόller

Elias Howard Sellards (1875–1961): Paleontologist, Geologist, and Anthropologist, Elsie Darrah Morey and Alicia Lesnikowska

Maxim Konrad Elias (1889–1982), Alicia Lesnikowska

Adolf Carl Noι (1873–1939): Pioneer in North American Coal-Ball Studies, Elsie Darrah Morey and Paul C. Lyons

Fredda Doris Reed (1894–1988): Educator and Paleobotanist, Thomas N. Taylor

Walter Andrew Bell (1889–1969): Canadian Paleobotanist and Earth Scientist, Erwin L. Zodrow

James Morton Schopf (1911–1978): Paleobotanist, Palynologist, and Coal Geologist, Aureal T. Cross, Robert M. Kosanke, and Tom L. Phillips

Chester A. Arnold (1901–1977): Portrait of an American Paleobotanist, Richard A. Scott

Charles Brian Read (1907–1979): American Paleobotanist and Geologist, Sergius H. Mamay, Sidney R. Ash, and Paul C. Lyons

Leonard Richard Wilson (1906–): Palynologist, Paleobotanist, and Geologist, Robert M. Kosanke and Aureal T. Cross

Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr. (1910–): Paleobotanist, Educator, and Explorer, Tom L. Phillips and Patricia G. Gensel

THE AMATEUR COLLECTORS

Frederick Oliver Thompson (1883–1953): Amateur Collector and Patron of Paleobotany, Elsie Darrah Morey

George Langford, Sr. (1876–1964): Amateur Paleobotanist and Inventor, Richard L. Leary

John Edward Jones (1883–1957): Pioneer in Coal-Mining Safety and Generous Collector of Fossil Plants and Animals, Michael D. Henderson

Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Floral Zonation Schemes of the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of North America and Correlations with the Late Carboniferous of Europe, Paul C. Lyons and Erwin L. Zodrow

The Stephanian of North America: Early 1900s Controversies and Problems, Paul C. Lyons and Robert H. Wagner

Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Coal-Ball Studies in North America, Tom L. Phillips and Aureal T. Cross

Taphonomic and Sedimentologic Characterization of Roof-Shale Floras, Robert A. Gastaldo, Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, and William A. DiMichele

History and Development of Carboniferous Palynology in North America During the Early and Middle Twentieth Century, Aureal T. Cross and Robert M. Kosanke

Author Index

Taxa Index