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For those of you interested in the history of paleontology in the Midwest (North America), I’ve just put two very rare articles by Charlie Sternberg up on the web… They were both published in 1899 in an obscure and short-lived journal called Popular Science News (not to be confused with Popular Science Monthly, which I did for longer than I would like to admit).

The first one is about the beautiful Protostega specimen in the Carnegie Museum:

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/strnbrg99a.html

Sternberg, C. H. 1899. The first great roof. Popular Science News 33:126-127, 1 fig.

The second one is about a dig on a mosasaur (Platecarpus) which was sent to the University of Iowa. I’m still trying to find out more on that specimen:

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/strnbrg99b.html

Sternberg, C. H. 1899. A Kansas mosasaur. Popular Science News 33:259-260.

Both articles provide a first-hand look at how fossils were collected over a hundred years ago by one of the recognized experts. Sternberg even offers his comments about a few of the well-known paleo-personalities of the day.

For more about Charlie, go here:

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/CHStrnbrg.html

Regards,

Mike Everhart

Adjunct Curator of Paleontology

Sternberg Museum of Natural History

Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS