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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Only one article in 1904


I'm beginning to wonder if there was very little dinosaur activity during this time, or if the Newspaper Archive folks have just been falling down on the job...

Restoring a Reptile of SEven Million Years Ago
New York Times - Sep 18, 1904
IT is one thing to find the skeleton, of a giant dinosaur in the Bone Cabin Quarry on the plains of Central Wyoming, and quite another thing to ship the colossal bones to New York and mount them in a museum for an admiring and wondering world to look at. It takes as long to articulate the massive fram of a brontosaurus as it does to build a battleship.

In the summer of 1900 an expedition sent out by the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, found in Wyoming the largest and most complete specimen of the herbivorous dinosaur that has so far come under the observation of an explorer. The bones of this ponderous long-limbed fossil were received at the Museum in the fall of the same year. Professor Henry F. Osborn, Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology; Adam Hermann, the Chief Preparator of the museum, and a staff of experts have been at work ever since putting them together...

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