. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Alfred Sherwood Romer Professor Alfred S. Romer was fond of comparing vertebrate palaeontolo- gists with the conies (Hyracoidea) of Scripture: 'a feeble folk, which dwelleth among the rocks.' Through the sudden death of Professor Romer in November 1973s tn^s 'feeble folk' has lost an able and courageous leader, and one of its best-known and loved members. Born in 1894, Alfred Sherwood Romer completed a doctoral thesis at Columbia University in 1921 before joining the faculty of the University of Chic
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Alfred Sherwood Romer Professor Alfred S. Romer was fond of comparing vertebrate palaeontolo- gists with the conies (Hyracoidea) of Scripture: 'a feeble folk, which dwelleth among the rocks.' Through the sudden death of Professor Romer in November 1973s tn^s 'feeble folk' has lost an able and courageous leader, and one of its best-known and loved members. Born in 1894, Alfred Sherwood Romer completed a doctoral thesis at Columbia University in 1921 before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1923 as Assistant Professor, becoming Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1931. In 1934 he moved to Harvard as Professor of Zoology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. In 1947 he received the Alexander Agassiz Professorship in Zoology, and was director of the Museum of Com- parative Zoology from 1946 to 1961. He retired from the Harvard staff in 1965, becoming Professor Emeritus, but was actively involved in research up to the time of his death. Among the medals and awards received by Professor Romer during his long career were the Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences for 1956, the Academy's Elliot Medal for i960, the Hayden Memorial Geological Award of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for 1962, the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1962, the Medal of the Linnean Society of London 1972, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1973. He held honorary doctorates from the universities of Harvard, Amherst, Dartmouth, Buffalo and Lehigh. 219 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 64, 1974: Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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