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William Diller Matthew
Canadian-American paleontologist
William Diller Matthew
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- Born:
- Feb. 19, 1871, Saint John, N.B., Can.
- Died:
- Sept. 24, 1930, San Francisco (aged 59)
William Diller Matthew (born Feb. 19, 1871, Saint John, N.B., Can.—died Sept. 24, 1930, San Francisco) was a Canadian-American paleontologist who was an important contributor to modern knowledge of mammalian evolution. From 1895 to 1927 Matthew worked in the department of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. He became curator of the department in 1911 and divisional curator in chief in 1922. During this period he made an exhaustive study of the fossil collections of pioneer paleontologist Edward Cope and published 240 papers. Most important among them was “Climate and Evolution” (Annals of the ...(100 of 185 words)