Word: schuchert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARSH, PIONEER IN PALEONTOLOGY-Charles Schuchert & Clara Mae LeVene-Yale...
...serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency," reconstructs the life of Othniel Charles Marsh with as much care and completeness as Marsh reconstructed his fossils...