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Samuel Wendell Williston

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Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially, rather than arboreally. He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera.

Books

Synopsis of the Families and Genera of North American Diptera
Synopsis of the Families and Genera of North American Diptera
Samuel Wendell Williston
The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada
The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada
Leland Ossian Howard, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Charles Valentine Riley, William Morris Davis, Samuel Wendell Williston, Charles William Woodworth
... Papers on Diptera
... Papers on Diptera
Samuel Wendell Williston
Fam. Syrphidae
Fam. Syrphidae
Samuel Wendell Williston
Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae
Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae
Samuel Wendell Williston
... Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae
... Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae
John Belknap Marcou, Samuel Wendell Williston

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