Darwin and His Age

Abstract

By 1866, Othneil Marsh of Lockport, New York, a graduate of Andover Academy, became professor of vertebrate paleontology at Yale, as the number of professional, academic positions for scientists gradually, if sluggishly, continued to expand. He was one of the very first to be appointed to such a post, as well as to the U.S. Geological Survey. He dedicated the balance of his days to searching for dinosaur fossils in the American West and noting their implications for the ancestry of all species, including man. He described many of his ideas in his book, Dinosaurs of North America.