FOOTNOTES
1. Interestingly Bauer user the term ‘ammonite’ to refer to the rock sedimentologists know today as pisolite.

2. The Paleontological Society in the US makes an Annual Award—The Strimple Medal—to amateurs in order to acknowledge and celebrate their contribution to our science and the UK Palaeontological Association awards its Marie Anning prize for the same purpose.

3. Simpson was married to psychologist Anne Roe and had a deep interest in cultural subjects (see Laporte. 2000).