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Oliver Perry Hay

American paleontologist
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Born:
May 22, 1846, Saluda, Ind., U.S.
Died:
Nov. 2, 1930, Washington, D.C. (aged 84)
Notable Works:
“Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America”
“Pleistocene of North America and Its Verebrated Animals…”
Subjects Of Study:
vertebrate
fossil
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Oliver Perry Hay (born May 22, 1846, Saluda, Ind., U.S.—died Nov. 2, 1930, Washington, D.C.) was an American paleontologist who did much to unify existing knowledge of North American fossil vertebrates by constructing catalogs that have become standard references. While serving as professor of biology and geology at Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind. (1879–92), he helped organize the Indiana Academy of Science (1890) and embarked on his first paleontological expedition (1889), studying fossils in western Kansas. When he was associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City (1901–07), Hay published Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata ...(100 of 157 words)

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