Geobulletin alpha

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Author:	Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D.
Date:	2014-10-29 13:40:00
Blog:	Palaeoblog
URL:	http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/born-this-day-othniel-charles-marsh.html

Summary:

In 1866, the Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded with a gift from George Peabody. The same year his nephew, O.C. Marsh (Oct. 29, 1831 - Mar. 18, 1899), was also named its Professor of Paleontology, the first such appointment in the United States. In 1869 Marsh used the inheritance from his uncle to start to amass large collections of vertebrate fossils. He went on to long and

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Location	Country	Latitude	Longitude
United States	US	37.1679	-95.845

Keywords:

appointment, George Peabody, gift, inheritance, large collections, Mar., Natural History, nephew, O.C. Marsh, Oct., Othniel Charles Marsh, Paleontology, Peabody Museum, uncle, United States, vertebrate fossils