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Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
...dinosaur eggs eventually caused Dr. Andrews much vexation. George Olsen, paleontologist, discovered the first fragments. Dr. Andrews & companions "did not take his story very seriously. . . . The prospect was thrilling, but we would not let ourselves think of it too seriously. . . ." Dr. Walter Granger, paleontologist, finally said: "No dinosaur eggs have ever been found, but the reptiles probably did lay eggs. These must be dinosaur eggs. They can't be anything else...
...raise money for the digging Dr. Andrews and Dr. Osborn at a breakfast in Manhattan decided to excite the public by selling a dinosaur egg to the highest bidder. Offers came from all parts of the world, including Australia and New Zealand. The Illustrated London News bid, as did the National Geographic Society. The late Colonel Austin Colgate bought the egg for $5,000. Colgate University now has it. Dr. Andrews followed up the publicity, in four months raised $286,000 for his field work...
...Colgate dinosaur egg was the only one sold. The British Museum, to which the American Museum of Natural History had sent a plaster replica of an egg gratis, refused to pay $100 for an original aged 95 million years. But in the Orient, Chinese, Mongols & Russians decided that Dr. Andrews was getting $60,000 a dozen for the eggs, and a fortune for the big bones. When he returned to Mongolia he found grafters plaguing him at every turn. He generally bullied them out of their demands...
...government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur Holly Compton...