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Gabb, William More

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Born: 1839
Died: 1878

City: Philadelphia
Country: USA

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Biography of W. Gabb

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US invertebrate palaeontologist in Philadelphia, working on Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils, i.a. molluscs - Edit

Paleontologist; paleoconchologist; numerous papers on Cretaceous and Tertiary mollusks - Edit

William More Gabb (January 16, 1839 â May 30, 1878) was an American paleontologist. Gabb was born and educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the leading center of American science at the time. He graduated from Jefferson Grammar School at age thirteen and was admitted to the prestigious Central High School of Philadelphia. He distinguished himself in his studies and showed an interest in natural history, conchology and geology. He graduated in 1857 with a bachelor of arts degree. Gabb chose to pursue a career in geology and sought the assistance of the notable geologist, James Hall in Albany, New York. For a time he became Hallâs student and assistant before returning to Philadelphia in 1860. There he became an active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences and then briefly joined a group of young scientists studying at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C . In 1861, Josiah Whitney, chief of the California Geological Survey, was searching for a qualified paleontologist to assist with the survey. After much inquiry, Gabb was recommended as the best authority in American Cretaceous paleontology and in 1862 he was appointed paleontologist to the survey. William H. Brewer, who led the field work for Whitney, described Gabb as âyoung, grassy green, but decidedly smart and well posted in his department--he will develop well with the hard knocks of camp.â For the next several years Gabb did extensive work throughout California and beyond. In addition to field work, he classified the surveyâs Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils and documented his findings in the survey reports, writing on paleontology in the first and second volumes of the Geological Survey of California (1864). In 1863 he was sent to investigate the Cretaceous rocks of Oregon, Washington Territory and Vancouver Island, Canada. In 1864 he explored northern California and southeastern Oregon. The following year, 1865, was spent mainly in cataloging and describing the fossils collected by the survey. In 1866 he explored the Coast Ranges and in 1867 explored the White Mountains along the border between California and Nevada. Also in 1867, an expedition was organized to explore Baja California under the leadership of John Ross Browne. Gabb participated in the survey which made important contributions to understanding the geology and geography of the peninsula. Gabb then returned to the East in 1868 and gave a summary of his research in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences. After seeing to the publication of the second volume of California Paleontology, Gabb ended his participation in the California survey. In 1868 the government of Santo Domingo arranged through the Santo Domingo Land and Mining Company (a New York corporation) for a geological survey of their country. Gabb was hired by the corporation to perform this survey and remained on the island from 1869 till 1872. He published his findings in an extended memoir, On the Topography and Geology of Santo Domingo (1873). In 1873 the government of Costa Rica engaged Gabb to perform a survey of the geography, geology and resources in the little-known Talamanca Region. One of the principal supporters of this expedition was Minor C. Keith, who started the banana industry in Costa Rica and eventually co-founded the United Fruit Company. During his three-year survey, Gabb also made extensive ethnological and natural history collections for the Smithsonian. He was assisted by Jose Zeledon, who was to become a well known Costa Rican ornithologist. While in Cost Rica, Gabb married an Indian woman, Victoria. They had one son, Guillermo, born in 1874 or 1875. Gabb contracted a virulent form of malaria in Costa Rica. He returned to Philadelphia in 1876 and then traveled again to Santo Domingo with the intention of developing a promising mining claim. However, his declining health forced him back to Philadelphia, where he died on May 30, 1878. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery. - Edit

William More Gabb (January 16, 1839 â May 30, 1878) was an American paleontologist. Gabb was born and educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the leading center of American science at the time. He graduated from Jefferson Grammar School at age thirteen and was admitted to the prestigious Central High School of Philadelphia. He distinguished himself in his studies and showed an interest in natural history, conchology and geology. He graduated in 1857 with a bachelor of arts degree. Gabb chose to pursue a career in geology and sought the assistance of the notable geologist, James Hall in Albany, New York. For a time he became Hallâs student and assistant before returning to Philadelphia in 1860. There he became an active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences and then briefly joined a group of young scientists studying at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C . In 1861, Josiah Whitney, chief of the California Geological Survey, was searching for a qualified paleontologist to assist with the survey. After much inquiry, Gabb was recommended as the best authority in American Cretaceous paleontology and in 1862 he was appointed paleontologist to the survey. William H. Brewer, who led the field work for Whitney, described Gabb as âyoung, grassy green, but decidedly smart and well posted in his department--he will develop well with the hard knocks of camp.â For the next several years Gabb did extensive work throughout California and beyond. In addition to field work, he classified the surveyâs Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils and documented his findings in the survey reports, writing on paleontology in the first and second volumes of the Geological Survey of California (1864). In 1863 he was sent to investigate the Cretaceous rocks of Oregon, Washington Territory and Vancouver Island, Canada. In 1864 he explored northern California and southeastern Oregon. The following year, 1865, was spent mainly in cataloging and describing the fossils collected by the survey. In 1866 he explored the Coast Ranges and in 1867 explored the White Mountains along the border between California and Nevada. Also in 1867, an expedition was organized to explore Baja California under the leadership of John Ross Browne. Gabb participated in the survey which made important contributions to understanding the geology and geography of the peninsula. Gabb then returned to the East in 1868 and gave a summary of his research in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences. After seeing to the publication of the second volume of California Paleontology, Gabb ended his participation in the California survey. In 1868 the government of Santo Domingo arranged through the Santo Domingo Land and Mining Company (a New York corporation) for a geological survey of their country. Gabb was hired by the corporation to perform this survey and remained on the island from 1869 till 1872. He published his findings in an extended memoir, On the Topography and Geology of Santo Domingo (1873). In 1873 the government of Costa Rica engaged Gabb to perform a survey of the geography, geology and resources in the little-known Talamanca Region. One of the principal supporters of this expedition was Minor C. Keith, who started the banana industry in Costa Rica and eventually co-founded the United Fruit Company. During his three-year survey, Gabb also made extensive ethnological and natural history collections for the Smithsonian. He was assisted by Jose Zeledon, who was to become a well known Costa Rican ornithologist. While in Cost Rica, Gabb married an Indian woman, Victoria. They had one son, Guillermo, born in 1874 or 1875. Gabb contracted a virulent form of malaria in Costa Rica. He returned to Philadelphia in 1876 and then traveled again to Santo Domingo with the intention of developing a promising mining claim. However, his declining health forced him back to Philadelphia, where he died on May 30, 1878. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery.

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1909: Dall, W. H., Biographical memoir of William More Gabb, 1839-1878. -- National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 6: 347-361, port. [BIOGRAPHY; PORTRAIT] 1926: Stewart, R. B., Gabb's California fossil type collection. -- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 78: 287-447, pls. 20-32. [LIST OF NEW TAXA; COLLECTION DATA] 1930: Stewart, R. B., Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. -- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Special Publication 3: 314 pp., 17 pls. [LIST OF NEW TAXA] 1988: Coan, E. V. & A.E. Bogan, The Recent invertebrate taxa described by William More Gabb, 1839-1878. -- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 140(1): 273-284. [LIST OF NEW TAXA] 1999: Shor, E. N., Gabb, William More. -- American National Biography, 8: 593-594. [BIOGRAPHY] 2018. L. T. Groves & Richard L. Squires. Annotated Catalog of the Fossil Invertebrates Described by, and Named for,William More Gabb (1839–1878). ZooTaxa 4534 - Edit

1909: Dall, W. H., Biographical memoir of William More Gabb, 1839-1878. -- National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 6: 347-361, port. [BIOGRAPHY; PORTRAIT] 1926: Stewart, R. B., Gabb's California fossil type collection. -- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 78: 287-447, pls. 20-32. [LIST OF NEW TAXA; COLLECTION DATA] 1930: Stewart, R. B., Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. -- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Special Publication 3: 314 pp., 17 pls. [LIST OF NEW TAXA] 1988: Coan, E. V. & A.E. Bogan, The Recent invertebrate taxa described by William More Gabb, 1839-1878. -- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 140(1): 273-284. [LIST OF NEW TAXA] 1999: Shor, E. N., Gabb, William More. -- American National Biography, 8: 593-594. [BIOGRAPHY] 2018. L. T. Groves & Richard L. Squires. Annotated Catalog of the Fossil Invertebrates Described by, and Named for,William More Gabb (1839–1878). ZooTaxa 4534

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1860. Gabb, W. M. Descriptions of some new species of Cretaceous fossils. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [2nd Series], 4 (3-9): 299-305, pl. 48.


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1860. Gabb, W.M. Descriptions of new species of American Tertiary and Cretaceous fossils. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [2nd Series], 4 (4-14): 375-406, pls. 67-69.


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1861. Gabb, W.M. . Description of New Species of Cretaceous Fossils from New Jersey, Alabama and Mississippi. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 12: 318-330.


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1861. Gabb, W.M. Synopsis of the Mollusca of the Cretaceous Formation, Including the Geographical and Stratigraphical Range and Synonymy. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 8 (65): 57-257


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1864. Gabb, W.M. Paleontology of California. Volume I. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California. Paleontology Vol I, Section IV: 57-217, pls. 9-32.


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1866-1869. Gabb, W.M. Paleontology of California. Vol II. Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils. Geological Survey of California, 299 p., pls. 1-36


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1869. Gabb, W.M. Descriptions of new species of South American fossils. No. 1. Tertiary. American Journal of Conchology [New Series], 5 (1): 25-32.


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1873. Gabb W.M. - Description of some new genera of Mollusca - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 24, 270?274, pls 9?11 ["1872"; 11 February 1873]


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1873. Gabb, W.M. On the topography and geology of Santo Domingo. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society [new series], 15: 49-259


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Acilia gabbiana Dickerson 1916


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Antiplanes gabbi Kantor & Sysoev, 1991 Pleistocene and Recent, California


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Brachypodella dominicensis gabbi Pilsbry, 1903 Dominican Republic


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Bulimulus gabbi Crosse & Fischer, 1872 Mexico


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1877. Gabb, W.M. Description of a collection of fossils, made by Doctor Antonio Raimondi in Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [2nd Series], 8 (3-10): 263-330.


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1877. Notes on American Cretaceous fossils, with descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 28, 276-324.


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1881. Gabb, W.M. Descriptions of Caribbean Miocene fossils. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [2nd Series], 8 (4-11): 337-348, pls. 44-47.


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1881. Gabb, W.M. Descriptions of New Species of Fossils from the Pliocene Clay Beds between Limon and Moen, Costa Rica, together with Notes on previously known Species from there and elsewhere in the Caribbean Area. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [2nd Series], 8: 349-380.


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Bulimus gabbi Angas, 1879 Costa Rica


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Callistochiton gabbi H. A. Pilsbry, 1893 Panamic


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Cardium gabbi Remond, 1863 California - Pliocene


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Chemnitzia gabbiana Cooper, 1867. California


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Clypeaster gabbii Remond, 1863 Miocene - Echinoid


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Coelocentrum minorinum gabbi Pilsbry, 1900 Baja California Sur


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