RE: Okamura source (from E. Spamer)

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From: Earle Spamer <SPAMER@say.acnatsci.org>
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The following email was awaiting after a month's absence, forwarded to me at
a most auspicious time.

I can provide all the information you would care to have about Chonosuke
Okamura, of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan.  He published 15
numbers in the series, "Original Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory".
I have just published a review of this series in the "Annals of Improbable
Research" (vol. 1, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp.  3-9 and cover).  Better than
microscopic embryos of modern organisms, Okamura describes miscroscopic
versions of modern species, including humans (who incidentally were
terrorized by dragons), and demonstrates that the lineage of modern organisms
begins during the Silurian at one mountain in Japan (coincidentally).

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I hope this is "useful".

Earle Spamer
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
email  spamer@say.acnatsci.org

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From: N.Monks@nhm.ac.uk (Neale Monks)
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Dear All,

Someone has refered to some work by a Japanese scientist called C.Okamura.
Apparently there is some evidence here of vertebrate ancestors in the
Palaeozoic identifiable as modern-looking tetrapods, including mammals, but
a good deal smaller in size (perhaps embryos?).

This sounds a very interesting piece of work, but my correspondant knows
neither the journal nor the date; so I am asking if anyone is aware of this
paper, and whether any work has been done on these specimens since.

Thanks for any help/comments in advance.

Neale.


Neale Monks, Department of Palaeontology,
Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD
Internet: N.Monks@nhm.ac.uk
Telephone: 0171-938-9007

"...now Nature is having the last laugh. The freaky stuff is turning out to
be the mathematics of the natural world"

from 'Arcadia', by Tom Stoppard