The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schuchert, Charles
SCHUCHERT, shŭk'ėrt, Charles, American
palaeontologist: b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 July 1858.
He received a common school education, but
possessing a natural aptitude for scientific
investigation he early began a collection of
fossils and the study of palaeontology. He was
assistant to different experts in 1885-91; and in
1891-92 assisted in the geological survey of
Minnesota. He was preparator of fossils with
Dr. C. E. Beecher at Yale in 1892-93; served on
the United States Geological Survey in 1893-94;
and since 1904 he has been professor of
palaeontology and Yale professor of the history
of geology at Sheffield Scientific School, and
curator of the geological collections at Peabody
Institute. Author of ‘Textbook of Geology’;
‘Historical Geological Paleograph of North
America’; ‘Revision of Paleozoic Stelleroida,
with Special Reference to North American
Asteroida’ (1915), etc.