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CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER (1856-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:EMERSON See also:BEECHER (1856-1904)  , See also:American palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Dunkirk, New See also:York, on the 9th of See also:October 1856 . He graduated at the university of See also:Michigan in 1878, and then became assistant to See also:James See also:Hall in the See also:state museum at See also:Albany . Ten years later he was appointed to the See also:charge of the invertebrate fossils in the See also:Peabody Museum, New Haven, under O . C . See also:Marsh, whom he succeeded in 1899 as See also:curator . Meanwhile in 1889 he received the degree of Ph.D. from Yale University for his memoir on the Brachiospongidae, a remarkable See also:group of See also:Silurian See also:sponges; later on he did See also:good See also:work among the fossil See also:corals, and other See also:groups, being ultimately regarded as a leading authority on fossil See also:crustacea and See also:brachiopoda; his researches on the development of the brachiopoda, and on the See also:Trilobites Triarthrus and Trinucleus, were especially See also:note-worthy . In 1892 he was appointed See also:professor of palaeontology in Yale University . He died on the 14th of See also:February 1904 . Memoir by C . Schuchert in Amer . Journ . See also:Science, vol. xvii., See also:June 1904 (with portrait and bibliography) .

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