Word: fossilizing
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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...