Charles Elmer Resser (28 April 188918 September 1943) was an American

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

, born in

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. He was educated at Pennsylvania State Teachers College (graduation in 1912),

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(B.A., 1913),

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(M.A., 1915) and

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(Ph.D., 1917). Resser developed an interest in Cambrian fossils when he was a student of H. Justin Roddy at Franklin and Marshall College.

Career

In 1914 Resser came to the United States National Museum as an assistant to Walcott. He was appointed Assistant Curator in the Division of Paleontology in 1915. Further positions were Assistant Curator, Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology (1923), Associate Curator, Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology (1924-1928), Curator, Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology (1929-1940); and Curator, Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany (1941-1943). Resser was a part-time faculty member at George Washington University from 1915 to 1932. At the

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Resser taught geology for a number of years.

Works

* New Lower and Middle Cambrian crustacea. ''Proceedings of the United States National Museum'', Vol. 76, Art. 9, 1929, 18 pp., 7 pls. *

Charles D. Walcott Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and director of the United States Geological Survey.Wonderful Life (book) by Stephen Jay Go ...

: Addenda to descriptions of Burgess shale fossils (with explanatory notes by Charles E. Resser). ''Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections'', Vol. 85, No. 3, 1931, 46 pp., 23 pls., 11 text figs

References

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