Word: morrision
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Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail...
Soon, inspired reconstructions of the Cambrian bestiary began to create a stir at paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and...
Harvard has more than 1,000 of the surviving Dickinson poems in its collection, according to Leslie A. Morris, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard College Library.
Some of Dickinson's other works are available at Amherst College and at the Boston Public Library, but Harvard's collection is the largest, Morris said.
"To the best of my knowledge, [Stambovsky] had not written a request [to see them]," said Morris.