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When an animal dies, the possibility of his becoming a fossil occurs only if he is buried shortly after death or possibly at the time of death. In this event the body does not have a chance to rot, but is pressed unharmed into a rock layer. The dense nature of the rock strata in this quarry is of advantage in that water is prevented from seeping through and hence rotting away the tiny remains...
...Fossils. Notable among the Manhattan Press meetings was the congress of Fossils. Founded at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Fossils were originally titled the National Amateur Press Association, were 1,400 strong. As Fossils, this year's was the 27th annual reunion. Members fore-gathered in lower Manhattan at the Fossil Library, where musty walls and showcases are filled with nearly 40,000 amateur newspapers, clippings, photographs, relics. With the advent of the linotype, Fossils regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper...
...resources, number and distribution of population, are in constant state of flux, so that the economist's task is never done. His materials must ever be collected anew, and his work ever repeated; the economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking, it will be noted, not of changes in theories but of mutations in the phenomena with which theories deal in no field, probably, does the scientist have to deal with phenomena that change so generally and rapidly as in that...
...Manhattan, seven weeks ago, a picture (The Fossil Hunters) by Edwin W. Dickinson, exhibited by the National Academy of Design, won a prize although hung on its side (TIMF...
...geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that of 170 wells recently drilled, geologists indicated 157. Only 13 were wildcats.-Oklahoma's Charles Newton Gould...