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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 2008; v. 295; p. 1-6;
DOI: 10.1144/SP295.1
© 2008 Geological Society of London

Articles

Peter L. Forey

Brian Gardiner1 & Alison Longbottom2

1 Ringlee, Lindon Gardens, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7HB, UK
2 Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (e-mail: A.Longbottom@nhm.ac.uk)

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This book began with the desire by the editors to create a publication to honour Dr Peter Forey (Fig. 1) in recognition of his great contribution to fish systematics and palaeobiogeography. This preface gives a brief review of some of his accomplishments and a list of his publications to date. Peter Forey started his palaeontological career as a research student of Brian Gardiner at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London from 1968–1971.


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  		Fig. 1. Peter Forey.

 
His thesis on elopiform fishes was published in 1973 in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Geology supplement 10). That same year he produced what turned out to be a signal paper entitled ‘Relationships of elopomorphs’, which was published in ‘Interrelationships of Fishes’ (Greenwood, Miles & Patterson 1973). This was subsequently updated in 1996 by the paper Forey, Littlewood, Ritchie & Meyer, ‘Interrelationships of elopomorph fishes’, published in a new edition of ‘Interrelationships of Fishes’. These publications are still the standard works on fossil elopomorph comparative anatomy.

In 1972, sometime after graduation (during which period he had several jobs, including working for a security firm) he applied for, and secured, the position of Assistant professor in Zoology at the University of Alberta. He remained in this post until 1975 when he joined the fossil fish section in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. Here, working with Colin Patterson, he became one of the prime movers in getting phylogenetic systematics (or cladistics as it became called) accepted by . . . [Full Text of this Article]