Richard Montgomery Field died suddenly at his home in South Duxbury, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1961. He had served as a member of the Princeton University Faculty from 1923 until his retirement in 1950.Born April 21, 1885, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and raised in Boston, Field attended the Boston Latin School and later Harvard University, from which he received the bachelor's degree in Geology and Mining Engineering in 1910 and his doctorate in Paleontology in 1918.