好奇的一生

前言

This book was first envisioned by Professor Ge Sun when we were discussing the celebra-tion planned for my 70 Year.I give special thanks to Professor Qifeng Zhou,Academicianand President of Jilin University and to Professor Chunlin Sun, the Vice President of Jilin Uni-versity for their kind support that has made possible the publication of this collection of mem-ories and papers.As an Honorary Professor of Jilin University I feel particularly happy thatthey were so helpful in the publication of this book. The form the book has taken is a hybrid of what Ge Sun proposed,his guidance and help,in relation to what I could accomplish in practical terms of a short schedule and the ability toformat and organize the sections of this publication during the fall of 2005.Special thanksmust go to Professor Ge Sun for his continued help with many aspects of the organization andpublication of this book and to Terry Lott who helped with many of the practical details ofputting it all together. Thanks would be extended to Mr. Jingyi Weng, the Director of theShanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, and Prof. Yulin Bian, theExecutive Editor, and Mr. Shiliang Tang, the designer, of the book, for their kind help in edi-tion and publishing work for this book. A personal history,even a much abbreviated one,may be too long.The compromise be-tween a simple list of dates and facts versus all of the small events and background that goesinto the real history of what happened or how something happened is impossible to accomplish.What is written here is presented as a compromise of these two methods but with so muchbackground left out.The readers familiar with the things reported here can elaborate on anyaspect of what is said from their perspective.This book includes aspects of my life,as I re-member them, however imperfectly told or remembered. I have divided the book into discreetsections so any interested reader can focus upon those times or places that are of most interestto them. I have selected only a few photographs to go with this text.Several photographs areincluded to help illustrate the long road and various paths my life's journey has taken thus far.I used photographs in which I was included. However, when searching my photographs I foundthat most are photos I took and thus I am not included in the photo.I imagine many of mycolleagues could compile better photographs,placing me in the times and places,than I amable to do.The other sections of the book include a list of my current publications and abstractsthrough October 2005.I do not view this list as complete as I expect more papers to be pub-lished as more research is done. There is a list of my graduate students and postdoctoral re-search assistants to whom I owe so much for their work and help with my research program.Also included is a list of my technical assistants who have worked in a variety of capacities intheir help with my research program.

內(nèi)容概要

　　The form the book has taken is a hybrid of what Ge Sun proposed，　his guidance and help，in relation to what I could accomplish in practical terms of a short schedule and the ability toformat and organize the sections of this publication during the fall of 2005.　Special thanksmust go to Professor Ge Sun for his continued help with many aspects of the organization andpublication of this book and to Terry Lott who helped with many of the practical details ofputting it all together. Thanks would be extended to Mr. Jingyi Weng， the Director of theShanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House， and Prof. Yulin Bian， theExecutive Editor， and Mr. Shiliang Tang， the designer， of the book， for their kind help in edi-tion and publishing work for this book.

書籍目錄

IntroductionPrefaceA young boy learns about natureGrowing upA student looking for focusLearning to be professionalA young professionalA young professorThe move to FloridaGraduate students, postdoctoral research assistants, technicalassistants and collection managersTools and questionsPh.D., Master's degree, students, postdoctoral research assistants,collection managers, and research assistantsSelected publicationsSection IEarly CretaceousCenozoicSection II HypothesisSection III MicropaleontologySection IV PaleoclimateSection V PaleozoicThe Complete list of publications for David L. Dilcher (1961-2005)BooksPapers Published in Reviewed JournalsIn preparationSubmittedPublishedPresentations/Abstracts

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插圖：I grew seeds of this plant and wecleared the leaves,even the seedling leaves and alsobegan reconstructions of the fossils and diagrams ofthe living Platanus so common in Indiana.Then Istarted to grow seeds of some of the different speciesof Platanus.Julie completed a master's degree andthen transferred out of the lab.Chuck Daghlian was an undergraduate at IndianaUniversity and he took my Introductory Botany class.I invited him to work as an hourly worker in my labon fossil leaves from the middle Eocene.I had beenencouraged to publish some major work on these fos-sils rather than just one small paper on individualtaxa as I had been doing.So I began a major projecton the monocots of the middle Eocene.We had alarge Philodendron-like leaf and also I hired Frank Potter to work for several months on thepalm fossil material.I prepared lots of living material for cuticle which involved one trip toFairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, to cut 25 pounds of costa palmate leaves from the palmsthey had growing.Herbarium specimens of palm leaves just did not give me enough charac-ters to work with. I knew we had Sabal palms of some sort and then there were others not yetidentified. Chuck Daghlian went to graduate school in Texas to work with Ted Delevoryas andcalled me one day and asked to take over the palm project for his Ph.D.  dissertation.I hadabout 1 1/2 years invested in the project,  but he had found palms in Texas and needed to com-bine these with the ones from Tennessee and needed the modern reference work I had done.So I gave him all my palm research materials.Now I see there are still some loose ends thatcould be done and hope some day to get back to this as palms are great plants and their evo-lution and distribution are very interesting.

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