Word: paleobotanist
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...
Last week the discoverer of that petrified forest, Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland, was engaged in a public quarrel with Secretary of the Interior Ickes, whose duty it is to tend to national monuments. Professor Wieland wants Secretary Ickes to spend $95,000 cleaning up the petrified forest and making it easy for paleobotanists to get to. He thinks he has a right to get that done because, besides discovering the forest, he took title to it as a homesteader and then gave it back to the Government for nothing...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...
Fossil remains of the world's oldest land plant, a primitive shoot of the Cambrian era, 500,000,000 years age, have been found by a local paleobotanist in black oil shale from Sweden...