Re: State fossils - Ohio

[tuckr@digital.net]

>It was named after the late Dr. Dunkle, a curator at CMNH who worked on many 
>of the early fish 
finds here.

    When I was a wee lad living in Maryland, the late Dr. David Dunkle at the 
*Smithsonian's USNM* 
patiently encouraged my interests in vertebrate palaeontology and, especially, 
dinosaurs. Soon, I was 
making a pest of myself throughout the museum's vertebrate palaeontology, 
herpetology, and 
mammalogy departments. The associate curator of Mammals, the late Dr. Henry 
Setzer, later got even 
by sending me on a Smithsonian zoological field expedition to Iran and Pakistan 
for two years. After 
that, I ended up on the USNM's herpetology staff for seven years. before 
returning to Iran as the 
Shah's natural history museum advisor and founder of the Iran National Museum 
of Natural History. 
Naturally, I was *dis-invited* by the 'Ayatollah Khomeini after six years of 
living and working there.
    I daresay I'm one of the few people on the Dinosaur List who have seen the 
dinosaur footprints 
near Kerman.
                                         --------------------
                                             -= Tuck =-
                                          tuckr@digital.net
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Visit the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory            |
    |Web Page at http://www.brevard.cc.fl.us/~planet/                        |
    -------------------------------------------------------------------