Re: paleontologists

["Allan Edels" <edels@email.msn.com>]

Matt:

    I had heard the term RCAed from AMNH.  I was told that he was
particularly clumsy when it came to holding fossil specimens - and often
dropped them, or suddenly became Jerry Lewis trying to hold the pieces
together.

    As a friend of mine once said:  "Paleontology would not exist without
glue".

    Cheers,

        Allan Edels

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Troutman <m_troutman@hotmail.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: paleontologists


>
>>Roy Chapman Andrews  (explorer...aka: Indiana Jones)
>
>

SNIP

>fossils with brushes,  Andrews chopped away with a pick-ax.  One
>specimen ( presumed Psittacosaurus nest ) was deemed RCAed after ROY
>CHAPMAN ANDREWS and the damge he did to it.  Andrews did no paleontology
>work and his work was purely neontological and based on how much fun it
>was ( his phrase for every experience,  even the bad ones, was, " I had
>a grand time " ).

SNIP

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