Percy E. (Percy Edward) Raymond

Born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1879, Percy Edward Raymond studied at Cornell University and earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1904. He began his professional career at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, later worked with the Geological Survey of Canada, and in 1912 joined Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he eventually became a professor.

Raymond specialized in paleontology and geology, with a particular focus on trilobites. He published extensively on fossils, stratigraphy, and sedimentation, and he is especially remembered for research on trilobite evolution and for work connected to Burgess Shale fossils; the Raymond Quarry in British Columbia was named for excavations he carried out there in 1930.

His writing reflects a scientist deeply interested in prehistoric life and in explaining fossil anatomy with precision. Among the works associated with him today is The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites, and his long academic career helped shape the study of invertebrate paleontology in North America.