. The Canadian field-naturalist. 454 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 118. â ^i-5iL.#:*C:--«t/> â .*#i-'y if^A-^; Figure 5. Loris Russell, circa 1922. Photographer unknown. (Photo courtesy ROM Archives). transferred to the Reserve with the rank of Major. He continued an interest in communications, and collected early telegraph and other communications equipment, which since has been donated to the Museum of Sci- ence and Technology in Ottawa. In 1946 he was appoint- ed Director of the ROMP and in 1948 Associate Pro- fessor at the UT During 1937-1950 he continued his studies of fossi
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 454 The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 118. â ^i-5iL.#:*C:--«t/> â .*#i-'y if^A-^; Figure 5. Loris Russell, circa 1922. Photographer unknown. (Photo courtesy ROM Archives). transferred to the Reserve with the rank of Major. He continued an interest in communications, and collected early telegraph and other communications equipment, which since has been donated to the Museum of Sci- ence and Technology in Ottawa. In 1946 he was appoint- ed Director of the ROMP and in 1948 Associate Pro- fessor at the UT During 1937-1950 he continued his studies of fossil vertebrates, producing some two dozen papers on fishes, dinosaurs, creodonts, titanotheres, hors- es, and mastodons, as well as others on the geology of Alberta, fossil gastropods, eurypterids and even living rattlesnakes! In 1950 came the offer to become Chief of the Zool- ogy Section at the NMC, an offer he could not resist. He and Grace returned to Ottawa, and remained there for the next 13 years. In 1956 he was appointed Direc- tor of the Natural History Branch of the NMC (Fig- ure 6), a post that he held until 1963. This time at the NMC was arguably the single most important part of his career as a research museum administrator, which he filled with steady competence, vision and perceptive guidance of staff activities. He hired several productive research and curatorial staff, including Wann Langston, Don McAllister and Arthur Clarke, who shared Loris' professional interests in vertebrate palaeontol- ogy, ichthyology, and malacology, respectively. He profoundly influenced the direction of the Canadian natural sciences even outside his own fields of inter- est. For instance, in 1955 he suggested to invertebrate zoologist E. L. Bousfield that, as a staff member of a national institution, he might consider field studies on the Canadian Pacific coast and break from a previ- ous eight-year obsession with the Atlantic coast. This perceptive suggestion led to the disc
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