# Edward Oscar Ulrich

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American paleontologist (1857–1944)

Edward Oscar Ulrich in 1905

**Edward Oscar Ulrich** (1 February 1857, in [Covington, Kentucky](/source/Covington%2C_Kentucky) – 22 February 1944, in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.)) was an [invertebrate](/source/Invertebrate) [paleontologist](/source/Paleontologist) specializing in the study of [Paleozoic](/source/Paleozoic) [fossils](/source/Fossil).

## Biography

Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College.[1] Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the [Cincinnati Society of Natural History](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cincinnati_Society_of_Natural_History&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1877,[1] and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of [Illinois](/source/Illinois), [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota), and [Ohio](/source/Ohio), also associate editor for ten years of the *American Geologist*.

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil [Bryozoa](/source/Bryozoa), [Gastropoda](/source/Gastropoda), [Ostracoda](/source/Ostracoda), and [Pelecypoda](/source/Pelecypoda). In 1930, he was awarded the [Mary Clark Thompson Medal](/source/Mary_Clark_Thompson_Medal) from the [National Academy of Sciences](/source/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences),[1][2] and he was awarded the [Penrose Medal](/source/Penrose_Medal) in 1932.[1]

In [1926](/source/1926_in_paleontology), with [Ray S. Bassler](/source/Ray_S._Bassler), he described the conodont genus *[Ancyrodella](/source/Ancyrodella)*,[3]

## Legacy

An extinct species of [graptolite](/source/Graptolite), *[Climacograptus](/source/Climacograptus)* *ulrichi*, was named for him in 1908.[4]

*[Bactritimimus](/source/Bactritimimus)* *ulrichi*, an extinct [Carboniferous](/source/Carboniferous) [belemnite](/source/Belemnite), was named in honor of Ulrich in 1959.[5]

In 2002, an extinct [genus](/source/Genus) of [monoplacophorans](/source/Monoplacophora), *[Ulrichoconus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ulrichoconus&action=edit&redlink=1)*, was named in his honor for his geological studies of the [Ozark Plateaus](/source/Ozarks).[6]

## Notes

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-SIA1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-SIA1_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-SIA1_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-SIA1_1-3) ["Ulrich, Edward Oscar, 1857–1944, Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers"](http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_293066). *Accession 10-188*. [Smithsonian Institution Archives](/source/Smithsonian_Institution_Archives). Retrieved 9 March 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Thompson_2-0)** ["Mary Clark Thompson Medal"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195631/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson). National Academy of Sciences. Archived from [the original](http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson) on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ruedemann, Rudolph (1908). "Graptolites of New York, Part 2, Graptolites of the Higher Beds". *New York State Museum Memoir*. **11**: 412–413, 364–365, pl. 28, figs. 10, 11.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Flower, Rousseau H.; Gordon Jr., Mackenzie (September 1959). ["More Mississippian belemnites"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300916). *Journal of Paleontology*. **33** (5): 809–842. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [1300916](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300916).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-StinchcombAngeli_6-0)** Stinchcomb, Bruce; Angeli, Nicholas (2002). "New Cambrian and Lower Ordovician monoplacophorans form the Ozark Uplift, Missouri". *Journal of Paleontology*. **76** (6): 965–974. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2002JPal...76..965S](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002JPal...76..965S). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0022336000057802](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0022336000057802). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [232348206](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232348206).

## References

- [Smithsonian Institution Archives – Record Unit 7332 – Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers](http://siarchives.si.edu/findingaids/FARU7332.htm) William Cox

- Ruedemann, Rudolf. ["Edward Oscar Ulrich 1857–1944"](http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/eulrich.pdf) (PDF). *National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs*. **XXIV**.

**Attribution:**

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Wilson, J. G.](/source/James_Grant_Wilson); [Fiske, J.](/source/John_Fiske_(philosopher)), eds. (1900). ["Ulrich, Edward Oscar"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Ulrich,_Edward_Oscar). *[Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography](/source/Appletons'_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography)*. New York: D. Appleton.

## Further reading

- Bassler, Ray S. (1944). "Memorial to Edward Oscar Ulrich". *Proceedings of the Geological Society of America*: 331–351.

## External links

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