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Brownbag Lectures: A Historical Review of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Illinois State Museum, Part 3: Celtic Reign

Brownbag Lectures: A Historical Review of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Illinois State Museum, Part 3: Celtic Reign

• Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
• Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Dr. Jeffrey Saunders, Illinois State Museum Curator and Chair of Geology

Celtic Reign is the third and final in the speaker’s “Historical Review Series.” It presents the story of the Museum’s Quaternary Studies Center (the QSC, now morphed within the Landscape History Program). The QSC arose in 1969 with the arrival at the Museum of Dr. R. Bruce McMillan, as Curator of Anthropology and his subsequent collaboration with Museum colleagues Drs. Paul W. Parmalee (zoology/zooarchaeology), Walter Klippel (archaeology), and from 1972 onward, James E. King (palynology/geosciences). The QSC “prospered” through field work and laboratory analyses associated with the mitigation of adverse effects of the Harry S Truman Dam and Reservoir being constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers on the Osage River in Benton and Hickory counties, Missouri. The field work and laboratory analyses were conducted primarily by a cohort of research associates newly arrived at the Museum, among which in 1975 was today’s speaker. His presentation summarizes this program viewed through a personal lens, touching on its achievements then as well as its continuing influence on the vibrant ISM we know today.

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

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