Percy Edward Raymond was an American geologist, paleontologist, and professor at Harvard University who specialized in the evolution of trilobites and studied fossils from the Burgess Shale.
12 Facts About Percy Raymond
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Percy Raymond studied at Cornell University and although aiming to become an engineer, became fascinated by lectures of Gilbert Dennison Harris.
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Percy Raymond then went on to study paleontology, receiving a PhD from Yale University in 1904 under the supervision of Charles Emerson Beecher.
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Percy Raymond worked at the Carnegie Museum and the Geological Survey of Canada before becoming an assistant professor at Harvard University and its Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1910.
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Percy Raymond worked there until his retirement in 1945, rising to the rank of full professor by 1929 and continuing on as an emeritus professor.
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Percy Raymond then re-examined the same region and found a major bed higher up which has been called the Percy Raymond Quarry.
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Percy Raymond examined trilobite evolution over time through morphology of specimens from various points in time.
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Percy Raymond especially looked at variations in the appendages and examined similarities with other groups including the insects, crustaceans and arachnids, exploring the apparent explosion of life forms in the Cambrian period.
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Percy Raymond was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
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Percy Raymond received a Walker Grand Prize of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1928 for his monograph on trilobites.
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Percy Raymond collected pewter and studied the history of early American pewterers and their methods.
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Percy Raymond died at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 72.