descent in er years. ed a fortune in 1875, ed un everytrast finiser.

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    bones found, but since no first set of s, to fill. It ooppose it. to t end, Cope ar Institute, a learned society inPs of tar.

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    As for tic asylum in Clap far from well .

    Mantell’s ted spine remained on display at terian Museum for nearly a centurybefore being mercifully obliterated by a German bomb in tz.  remained ofMantell’s collection after o  aken to Neer became a distinguisually attaining ter of Native Affairs. In 1865 ed tion, including tooto ton,  started it all—arguably t important tootology—is no longer on display.

    Of course dinosaur ing didn’t end  nineteentury fossilers. Indeed, to a surprising extent it  begun. In 1898, t fellbetrove greater by far ticed, really—at a place called Bone Cabin Quarry, only a fe Como Bluff, yoming. to be found  of t, tsomeone  a cabin out of t t t bones ed from te, and tens of t followed.

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