Word: paleobotanists
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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...
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...
...speakers will talk on climate as it pertains to their particular field. Dr. Darrah's subject will be "Climate as Interpreted by a Paleobotanist"; Professor Mather will deal with "Climate and Animal Evolution"; while Associate Professor Whittlesey will discuss "Climate as an Element in the Landscape...