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1975January
Vol. No. 146,
12 FIELD BRIEFS
David M. WalstenEditor/Designer:
Staff Writer: JacobsMadge
Production: Oscar Anderson 14 THE SCULPTOR WHO COLLECTED
BUTTERFLIES
David M. WalstenBy
19 ASCENT OF MAN
back AT FIELD MUSEUMJANUARY
cover of EventsCalendar Coming
COVER
Field Museum of Natural History Field Museum at in northwesternpaleontologists camp
Founded 1893 Colorado. Assistant curator Elmer S. and(left)Riggs
H. W. Menke (center,geology preparator washing cooking
Director: E. Leland Webber
are on their to discover remains ofutensils) theway
which was to be as theBrachiosaurus, recognized largest
of all dinosaurs. Black tent isby wagon photographer's
dark room. See 3.story, p.
Board of Trustees
Blaine Edward SmithJ. Yarrington, Byron
President Mrs. Hermon SmithDunlap
Gordon Bent Robert H. Strotz
O. Bercher John W. SullivanHarry
Bowen Blair William G. PhotosSwartchild, Jr.
Stanton R. Cook E. Leland Webber
William R. B.Dickinson, Jr. Julian Wilkins 12 D. 12 M.9, Walsten; (bottom), Jacobs; 16, 18Pages (top), (top,
Thomas E. IIDonnelley bottom) D. Walsten.
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BRACHIOSAURUS
the biggest
dinosaur
them allof
Davidby Young
Hill?" asked the nice little"Riggs
in dress be-lady purple-flowered sitting
in Grandhind the desk thereception
museum. "Does heJunction, Colorado,
work here?"
I"No, Madame," replied. "Riggs
Hill is a place."
The looked somewhatreceptionist
and shuffled somenonplussed through
rosters to a secondofficial-looking gain
to think. "I've never heard of sheit,"
said "Where is it?"finally.
"That's what I want to I re-know,"
plied.
"What is it?"
the Brachiosaurus"They dug up
there a timelong ago."
"A what?"
"A dinosaur."
she said with a smile of rec-"Oh,"
"Then have to talk toognition. you'll
the paleontologist."
The a formerpaleontologist, young
Harvard fossilUniversity preparator
named Lance was thatErikson, at mo-
ment a of schoollecturing group visiting
children on the of alifestyle thirty-foot
At H. W. Menke, atright, geology preparator
Field Museum from about 7898 to 1904,
with the femur of Brachio-poses 675-pound
saurus. Date of about 7907. Severalphoto
months earlier Menke had assisted in exca-
the fromfossil its bed in the Grandvating
River of northwestern Colorado.Valley
David is a for theYoung reporter Chicago
Tribune
Field Museum Bulletinsaurus mounted on the second floor indinosaur mounted behind him. heYes,
Hall 38. It is the of the dino-knew Hill waswhere epitomeRiggs located; and,
"Thunderwould take there. saurs, the the behe-he me Lizard,"yes,
moth of"You Erikson "that's the creature in thebehemoths,know," said,
old Sinclair Oil and thewhere found the Brachiosaurus." advertisements,they
monster which chased the heroesA thousand miles to the east ofGrand
the afterstands Field Museum through swamp KingJunction Chicago's Kong
— abducted the maiden.an neoclassical structureimposing
But unknown to those visitors whowhich has a main exhibition hall (Stanley
stand and at BrontosaurusField to hold the gape (whichHall) large enough
an error in classification is notentire Grand museum. byJunction really
Brontosaurus but that"Brachiosaurus?" said FieldJohn Bolt, Apatosaurus)?
room hides theMuseum's assistant curator of fossil ground-floor storagerep-
bones of a creature eventiles and as he led me to a larger. Theyamphibians,
to Brachiosaurus.floor room where the belongground storage
the creature's bones arecreature's bones were hidden from Admittedly,pub- —not much to look at a total of less thanlic view. "It's here!"right
seven andAnd it there in thewas; twenty, including presacraldimly lighted
two caudal a fourroom the sacrum,vertebrae,temporary storage reposed
a ofmortal remains of theribs, right coracoid, part pelvis,mosasaurs, mastodons,
and fossil still encased a and a femur. There are nothumerus,mammals, many
in the even of them to be reassembledprotective plaster jackets placed enough
on them as into an exhibit. But the dimensions ofwereyears ago they dug
from the rocks. them the Brachiosaurus as told those boneswere theAmong by
bones of the Brachiosaurus taken arefrom staggering.
Hill Forin 1900. the IndianRiggs example, Ziggy, huge
Such is the fate of Brachio- in Brookfieldpoor elephant Zoo, weighs ap-
saurus. He was the animal known seven tons. The of whichlargest proximately he calculates to a crea-weight belonged
to have walked the face of the Brontosaurus in life has been calculated ture with aearth, neck feet It isforty long.
and one of the most at to tons. A Brachio- too to whetheranonymous. thirty thirty-five early tell, however, Jen-
of the thousands of visitors saurus has been calculated to sen's ofMany weigh (thesauropod family long-
2—who each Field Mu- more than twice that in the flesh! necked dinosaurs that includes Bronto-day pour through
seum to marvel at the Bronto- A adult the tallest andstop huge healthy giraffe, saurus, Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus)
stands seventeenanimal, feet is a Brachiosaurus or an newliving high. entirely
The mounted Brachiosaurus skele-only genus.
ton in in the Berlin So is the Brontosaurus soexistence, Museum, wellwhy
stands feet tall. But known and theforty Brigham BrachiosaurusYoung gigantic
A. so For theUniversity paleontologist James Jen- it isanonymous? answer,
sen discovered near Grand torecently Junc- back a tonecessary go nearly century
—nine cervical vertebrae America's Wildtion, Colorado, West of all places.
In was still1877, Chicago rebuilding
fromin 1879 named Brontosaurus from1. Marsh its famous fire of six earlier,years
found at Como butsome bones Bluff, Wyo., and the of conversation wasmajor topic
to be from athe bones later turned out genus
still the Sioux Indian War in which Col.
Evennamed Apatosaurus. thoughpreviously
in the name Brontosaurus, whicherror,
"thunder themeans lizard," public of the reconstructed Brachiosaurus icaught Drawing
and has been used the Berlin Museum. Thepopularly inimagination only complete
ever since. of this it stands 40reconstruction dinosaur,
Museum2. Edwin H. Colbert of the American The skeleton was excavatedfeet high. by
of Natural in 1962 calculated the in inGerman Tendaguru,History paleontologists
of 14 different dinosaurs based on a ex-Tanzania,weight present-day during four-year
and He esti- that ended in 1912. Forvolume comparison,body specific gravity. pedition
at a maximum of H. W. Menke is shown with the Field Mu-mated Brontosaurus' weight
to his seum femur. At 214 cm. the femur of35.8 but Brachiosaurus, long,tons; according
Brachiosaurus is 11 cm. (aboutthe scales at an thecalculations, tipped amazing Tendaguru
4.3 than that of the Colorado85.63 tons. Museum No. inches)(American Novitates, longer
Brachiosaurus.Brachiosaurus restoration (from Abel). 2076, 1972.)
1975January