Rock of ages sands of time by Barbara Page and Warren Allmon. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, in association with The Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, 2001. No. of pages: xxiv + 347. ISBN 0 226 64479 0 (hardback).

The second jurassic dinosaur rush: museu

The second jurassic dinosaur rush: museums and paleontology in America at the turn of the twentieth century by Paul D. Brinkman. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010. No. of pages: xiv + 345. Price: US$49.00. ISBN 978-0-226-07472-6 (hardback).

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