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Texas. One hundred million years old were the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world...
...Columbia in 1921. During his service as instructor of Anatomy at Columbia and as a member of the department of Comparative Anatomy at the Natural History Museum, associate professor and professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Chicago, he became an authority on reptiles and amphibians of the Permian period. He published two books in 1933 on the subject...
...Billings will speak on "The Mechanics of Intrusion of the Medford Dike" and Mr. Carpenter on "Collecting Permian Insects in Kansas...
...Billings will speak on "The Mechanics of Intrusion of the Medford Dike" and Mr. Carpenter on "Collecting Permian Insects in Kansas". The lectures will be illustrated...
GEOLOGICAL, CONFERENCE. "The Dwyka Glacial Conglomerate of Permian (?) Date in South Africa." (With illustrations and Specimens), Professor Davis Geological Lecture Room...