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...Harvard: Othniel Charles Marsh went to Yale. There he became the first U. S. professor of paleontology. For Yale he wheedled from his uncle, crusty Financier-Philanthropist George Peabody, some $200,000 for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. For the Museum he assembled the largest collection of fossil vertebrates of his day, including the completely reconstructed skeletons of twelve dinosaurs, one pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological...
...sporadic stories have come out of South Africa about a wild boy caught in the Koonap district in 1903 while traveling with a tribe of baboons. His captors were members of the Cape police. Last year Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, discoverer of the celebrated fossil apeman named Australopithecus, queried the district police about the Baboon Boy. There was no written record of his finding, and the man who had caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously given...
...find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They did, and this time agreed that the bone-&-weapon association was authentic. The weapons were judged to be 15,000 or more years...
...recent years things have got tougher for Horatius Hrdlicka. In 1931 the University of Minnesota's Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks investigated a human fossil turned up by a roadscraper. After long study he pronounced it to be that of a 15-year-old girl who had fallen or been thrown into a Glacial Age lake; he put her age at 20,000 years. Dr. Hrdlicka said No. He admitted that she had surprisingly big teeth, but could find no significant anthropological difference between her and recent Indians, did not seem to care about the geological evidence...
...Hrdlicka still said No. Commentator Hooton changed his metaphor: "It now begins to appear that the perennial heroism of one Dutch boy at the dyke is likely to prove insufficient to stop the in creasing trickles of fossil man through the geological defenses...