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Samuel Wendell Williston 
1851-1918 

Williston was assistant to O. C. Marsh at the Yale Peabody museum from 1876 to 1890.  He specialised in dinosaur hunting and was also an expert dipterologist and a medical doctor. 

Williston, S. W. 1886 άber Ornithocheirus hilsensis Koken. Zool. Anz. 9, 282–283.

Williston, S. W. 1891 The skull and hind extremity of Pteranodon. Am. Nat. 25 , 1124–1126.

Williston, S. W. 1892 Kansas pterodactyls. Part I. Kans. Univ. Q. 1, 1–13 & pl. 1.

Williston, S. W. 1893 Kansas pterodactyls. Part II. Kans. Univ. Q. 2, 79–81.

Williston, S. W. 1893 The Niobara Cretaceous of western Kansas. Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 13, 107–111, 2 plates

Williston, S. W. 1894 On various vertebrate remains from the Lowermost Cretaceous of Kansas. Kans. Univ. Q. 3, 1–4.

Williston, S. W. 1895 Note on the mandible of Ornithostoma. Kans. Univ. Q. 4, 61.

Williston, S. W. 1896 On the skull of Ornithostoma. Kans. Univ. Q. 4, 195–197, 1 plate

Williston, S. W. 1897 Restoration of Ornithostoma (Pteranodon). Kans. Univ. Q. 6, 35–51, 1 plate

Williston, S. W. 1897 The Kansas Niobrara Cretaceous. Univ. Geol. Surv. Kansas 2, 299–308, plates

Williston, S. W. 1902 Dragons of the air. Science 15, 67–68.

Williston, S. W. 1902 On the skeleton of Nyctodactylus, with restoration. American Journal of Anatomy 1, 297–305. 

Williston, S. W. 1902 On the skull of Nyctodactylus, an Upper Cretaceous pterodactyl. J. Geol. 10, 520–531.

Williston, S. W. 1902 Winged reptiles. Pop. Sci. Mthly 60, 314–322.

Williston, S. W. 1903 On the osteology of Nyctosaurus (Nyctodactylus), with notes on American pterosaurs. Field Columbian Mus. Publ. Geol. Ser. 2(3). Chicago, 125–163, plates 40–44.

Williston, S. W. 1904 The fingers of pterodactyls. Geol. Mag. 1, 59–60.

Williston, S. W. 1911 The wing-finger of pterodactyls, with restoration of Nyctosaurus. J. Geol. 19, 696–705.

Williston, S. W. 1912, A review of G. B. Eaton's "Osteology of Pteranodon". Jour. Geol. 20, p.288.

Williston, S. W. 1913 Review of Hooley, Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens. J. Geol. 21, 754–756.

Williston, S. W. 1917 The phylogeny and classification of reptiles. J. Geol. 25, 411–421.

Williston, S. W. 1825 The osteology of the reptiles, Part 1: The skeleton of reptiles, pp. 1-201, Part 2: The classification and range of reptiles.  pp. 105-300.