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Description American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (center, back row) and assistants ready for digging; from an 1872 expedition, part of the "Bone Wars". Pictured: (front row, seated at far left) Thomas H. Russell, '72 S, M.D. '75, later professor (of Clinical Surgery) at Yale 29 years and personal physician of Marsh, widely credited as having discovered the "nearly perfect skeleton" of Hesperornis regalis[1]; (order not specified) Benjamin Hoppin, ’72; Charles D. Hill; and James MacNaughton .[2]
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Source http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/oneItem.aspx?id=1770234&q=othniel&q1=&q2=&qc1=&qc2=&qf1=&qf2=&qn=&qo=&qm=15&qs=16&sid=&qx= Precious versions: Scan from The Ultimate Dinosaur Book (David Lambert, ISBN 156458304X), pg. 28. A copy may also be found in The Bonehunters' Revenge (David Rains Wallace, ISBN 0618082409), pg. 85, which confirms it is from the 1872 expedition.
Author Unknown; Lambert lists "John Ostrom/Peabody Museum" as picture credits and sources in Acknowledgments section.[3]
  1. See, for example, Gingerich, "Evolutionary Significance of the Mesozoic Toothed Birds." Russell has been mistakenly identified in other publications; for corroborating photo see Osborn, Men of Mark in Connecticut, https://books.google.com/books?id=pWnEXWJdbGsC&pg=PA424&lpg=PA424&dq=%22Thomas+Hubbard+Russell%22+and+connecticut&source=bl&ots=hAkOA1rdNj&sig=A7QX8gTclzhFd9LgVK3qb7uR-ZQ&hl=en&ei=kyeJTPnGOJGesQOo9ZWNCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. The Yale College Scientific Expedition of 1872. Yale Peabody Museum. Accessed 2009-08-02.
  3. Lambert, David (1993). The Ultimate Dinosaur Book, pg. 192.

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