Re: New refs 35?

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

a bio of Franz Nopcsa would be nice

a brief bio is here: 
http://museum.montana.edu/www/paleocat/chriso/history.htm

"Franz Nopcsa was born of one of the most ancient noble families of
Transylvania (now Romania). A polyglot, he published widely on Dinosaurs
and became fascinated with Albania, which he wanted to rule. Though gay,
he thought being a European nobleman he could simply marry the daughter
of a American millionaire to establish funding for his lordship. His
plan never panned out. During WWI he was a spy for the Imperial
Austro-Hungarian Army. After the war he joined the Hungarian Geological
Survey. He soon fought with superiors and subordinates alike and left
for Italy on motorcycle. In 1933 he killed his "companion" and then
committed suicide in relative poverty. His research was highly advanced
for his time, notably his use of osteohistology and dinosaur
classification."

Now is that promising a juicy historical character or what?  

-Betty

Ralph Chapman wrote:
> We
> really need to get proactive (government word here) about
> assembling some detailed essays on the history of vertebrate
> paleontology, and paleontology in general, in countries
> other than the US, England and France. Great to have them
> but there are so many important contributions and
> contributors in other areas and really want to be less
> ignorant than I am about them. Those of us who do historical
> sciences should be especially interested in our history. I
> hope to really delve into one of my heros Ameghino, who,
> like Barrande, was amazingly ahead of his time in many ways.
> If someone knows of a biography, please let me know. It's
> a project for the next couple years, along with getting a
> translation of his book on phylogenetic analysis (including
> numerical discussions) which predate this - I mean the
> previous century. Anyone who would care to do it, please let
> me know and I'll happily be a consumer rather than a
> generator of this. Also, I really would like to see a
> published history of paleontology in Russia - I know more on
> this and there are many great ones. Any takers?

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