Re: Newspapers & **Dinosaurs**

[Neil Clark <NCLARK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> After
> all, we don't hold physicists to Lord Kelvin's opinion that the Earth couldn't
> be more than 20 My old.

>   Florin Neumann

To quote from an article by Prof Bernard Leake and Graham Durant, 
Lord Kelvin's estimates ranged from 20 to 500 million years based on 
the cooling Earth model.  He later, presumably under a lot of 
pressure from various quarters, reduced the value to 20-40 million.

>From the home of William Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin).

Neil


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
GLASGOW
G12 8QQ
Scotland/UK
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk
Museum web site:-  http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/

'Man must surely have become an immensely worse animal 
than his teeth show him to have been designed for'
Hugh Miller (Cruise of the Betsey - 1858)