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Last Name Simpson

Given Name George Bancroft

alt. Names B. G. S. ; G. B. Simpson ;

Marriage Abigail L. Soule in 1891

Children

Year born 1844 in Boston, Massachusetts

Year died 1901

Place of death Albany, New York

Father's occupation mechanic, inventor

Relatives sister of Prof. James Hall (mother) ;

Education apprentice to printer ; military service ; Yale College, drawing from FH Swinton & R P Whitfield

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for James Hall (1811-1898): Fossils (1876) & Paleont. NY (1879) ; Hall & John M. Clarke: Paleozoic Sponges (1898) ; J. P. Lesley: Fossils Pennsylvania (1889) ; J. S. Newberry: Geol Survey Ohio (1875) ; Anodonta fluviatilis, 35th rep NY State Mus 1884: 169-91 & Polygyra albolabris, NY State bul. 40 ; G. B. S.: North American Paleozoic Bryozoa ;

Patronage Geological Survey of Pennsylvania;

Collaborators draftsman Ebenezer Emmons ; F. H. Swinton ; R. P. Whitfield ; lithographer Philip Ast ;

Techniques paleontological, zoological, and botanical drawing and painting

Sample(s)

Archival sources New York State Museum

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ##1804f. ; Langer 1978: ## 380f. & 384 ; Blum 1993 ; John M Clarke: obit on GBS in Report of NY State Paleontologist 1901: 457-60 ;

other Waterbury, Connecticut; collected fossils for James Hall.

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