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...quicksand. Another time, in an old quicksand bed they found the four legs of a baluchitherium, largest animal that ever lived. Each leg was as big around as a fat man. A speck of white in the prevailing red of the desert sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil, the diggers used whisk brooms and needles to disengage the item from its matrix. Dr. Andrews was usually chased away from a find. Impetuous, he was apt to use a pickaxe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mongolia Easy-Chaired | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Elected. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davidson, president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History to succeed famed Fossil Man Henry Fairfield Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jan. 23, 1933 | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...fossil-finders, taking care to leave their finds undisturbed until trained diggers come, notify the National Research Council at No. 2101 Constitution Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C.-ED. Marconi's Parabola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Separated. George Gaylord Simpson, of the American Museum of Natural History's field staff, onetime Yale professor; and Mrs. Lydia P. Simpson. Her charge: He carried on correspondences with young women in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., he had met on fossil hunts. Countercharge: She made scenes in the Museum of Natural History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...leave on a long journey last week was President Henry Fairfield Osborn. Next New Year's Day he will have completed 25 years as museum president, 41 as a curator. Then he will resign the presidency, remain perhaps as president-emeritus, perhaps as honorary curator-in-chief of fossil vertebrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Ups & Downs | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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