C.O. Dunbar
Last updated: 21 June 2001
Carl Owen Dunbar (1891-1979) was born
in Hallowell, Kansas. His parents, David and Emma (Thomas), and he lived on a
wheat farm in southeastern Kansas. He attended Cherokee County schools and
graduated with honors. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Kansas
in 1913 and a Ph.D. in geology from Yale University in 1917, and after a brief
stay at the University of Minnesota, he returned to Yale in 1920 where he served
with distinction for 39 years; he was Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at
Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Director of the Museum from
1942 until his retirement. He conducted the first Yale expedition to Elmo,
Kansas in 1921, bringing back approximately 2000 specimens which comprised the
material from which Robin J. Tillyard described many species, genera, and higher
taxa in his publications on the Kansas Permian insects.
Photo and information courtesy of
the Peabody Museum.
See the Biography
of C.O. Dunbar at the Yale Peabody Museum site.
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