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...Duckbill Dinosaur...
...National Research Council and their desire to be notified of discoveries of fossils. Would you kindly furnish me with their address? From time to time we discover fossils, many of which would probably be of interest to the Council. Only recently we discovered portions of a skeleton of a dinosaur which has been identified as that of a Trachadon-sometimes called the Duckbill Dinosaur. It is unusual because of the vast number of teeth in the skull-over 2,000-new ones coming out as the old ones wear down. This is the second or third skeleton of this type...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...
...moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur's egg in the U. S.; that his wife (Dolores Costello) calls him "Winkie"; that he maintains a large aviary in which his favorite is an ugly vulture named Maloney. Once, when Ethel Barrymore was engaged to an English army officer named Graham, Finley Peter Dunne suggested...
Included with the dozen abandoned expeditions is Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews' to Central Asia where he finds dinosaur eggs. The Chinese have refused to let him hunt more eggs and bones. He could reach the region by way of Russia and Siberia. But then he would be obliged to traffic with the Russians, a business which would displease the museum's supporters. So he will remain in Manhattan this winter and spring, writing up his past activities and warding off the verbal assaults of women explorers who, he declared last week, are fitted neither temperamentally nor physically...