Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Ulrich, Edward Oscar

ULRICH, Edward Oscar, geologist, b. in Cincinnati, 1 Feb., 1851, and was educated at Wallace college and the Ohio medical college. Abandoning the practice of medicine he became curator of the Natural history society of Cincinnati, and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of Illinois, Minnesota, and Ohio, also associate editor for ten years of the &ldquo;American Geologist.&rdquo; Mr. Ulrich has been a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa, Gastropoda, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda.