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Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
...raise money for the digging Dr. Andrews and Dr. Osborn at a breakfast in Manhattan decided to excite the public by selling a dinosaur egg to the highest bidder. Offers came from all parts of the world, including Australia and New Zealand. The Illustrated London News bid, as did the National Geographic Society. The late Colonel Austin Colgate bought the egg for $5,000. Colgate University now has it. Dr. Andrews followed up the publicity, in four months raised $286,000 for his field work...
...difficulty of this task caused the appointment of public-spirited William Church Osborn to head the new organization. Distinguished lawyer-Democrat, in 1918 he ran against Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial primary and was so impressed by his defeat that he became one of Governor Smith's stanchest supporters. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson, is a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, organized the aggressive Democratic Union. In Garrison, N. Y. he has a country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear...
Upon taking his new job Mr. Osborn lost no time in addressing mortgage holders as follows...
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...