Brian Curtice, a long-time sauropod jockey who now runs Fossil Crates, was briefly in Price, Utah, last Friday to drop off an Eilenodon skull at the Prehistoric Museum. While he was there he snapped some photos of a new “Dippy” exhibition — reproduced here with permission.

Last time, I told you about my new paper, The Concrete Diplodocus of Vernal (Taylor et al. 2023), and finished up by saying this: “But Mike, you ask — how did you, a scientist, find yourself writing a history paper? It’s a good question, and one with a complicated answer. Tune in next time to find out!” Paper 1 The truth is, I never set out to write a history paper. My goal was

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In a paper that I’m just finishing up now, we want to include this 1903 photo of Carnegie Museum personnel: {.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-20437 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“20437” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2022/11/08/who-is-who-in-this-1903-carnegie-museum-photo/hatcher-et-al-in-lab-1903/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/hatcher-et-al-in-lab-1903.jpg” orig-size=“2817,2285” comments-opened=“1”

I am co-authoring a manuscript that, among other things, tries to trace the history of the molds made by the Carnegie Museum in the early 1900s, from which they cast numerous replica skeletons of the Diplodocus carnegii mount (CM 84, CM 94, CM 307 and other contributing specimens). This turns out to be quite a mystery, and I have become fascinated by it. Below is the relevant section of the manuscript as it now stands.