Oliver Perry Hay

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Oliver Perry Hay
American
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsCarnegie Institution for Science

Oliver Perry Hay (May 22, 1846 – November 2, 1930) was an

paleontologist
.

Hay was born in Jefferson County, Indiana, to Robert and Margaret Hay. In 1870, Hay graduated with a bachelor of arts from

United States National Museum. There, he did much work with the USNM's collections in vertebrate paleontology. He published extensively on fossil turtles and Pleistocene mammals. The catalogs that he constructed were a great aid in recording existing knowledge and became standard references. His papers from 1911 to 1930 are stored at the Smithsonian Institution.[2]

Oliver and Mary had four children together.[3] Their son, William Perry Hay, was also a zoologist.

Works

Below is a partial list of Hay's work.

  • Hay, Oliver Perry (1892). The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana. Original from the University of Michigan: Wm. B. Burford. p. 204 Pages. Oliver Perry Hay.
  • Hay, Oliver Perry (1896). Fieldiana Zoology. V.1, No.4. "On some collections of fishes made in the Kankakee and Illinois". Vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History. pp. 85–97.
  • Hay, Oliver Perry (1902). Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. 179. Govt. Print. Off. p. 868 pages.
    OCLC 681072233
    .
  • Hay, Oliver Perry (1923). The Pleistocene of North America and Its Vertebrated Animals from the States East of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian Provinces East of Longitude 95.̊. Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 499 pages.
    OCLC 595145229
    .
  • Hay, Oliver Perry (1923). "Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates". Pan-American Geologist. 39: 101–120.
    OCLC 38855496
    .

References

  1. ISBN 9783337388706
    .
  2. ^ Cox, William (February 8, 2006). "Record Unit 7188 Oliver Perry Hay Papers, 1911–1930" (web). Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved January 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Lull, Richard Swann (1931). "Memorial of Oliver Perry Hay" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 42: 30–48.


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