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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, Über 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.