Re: Sue, the T rex

[chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>]

The description is what I'm presently hired to do.  Though I may have a
draft of it (or a large portion thereof) done by the end of this year, I
would be very surprised if it was actually published by the time Sue is
unveiled to the public next May.  So I won't predict when it will be
available to anyone.


I'll be doing a talk at SVP on some of the CT work I've done with Sue. 
Enough said for now.



Casey wrote:
> 
> I was a teaching assistant for a Dinosaur Biology class between late July &
> early August.  Part of this class culminated in a behind-the-scenes tour of
> the Chicago Field Museum.  As part of this we got to see some of the Sue
> prepatory labs.  She is not near to being assembled, as removal of matrix
> and repair of bone material is still occurring on the specimen.  We were
> told that Chris Brochu will be doing the official description later (Chris,
> if you're out there maybe you can add more to this).  Because of the
> special nature of the specimen, we were asked not to take pictures.  Due to
> this I'm reluctant to say anything more about it, other than it was
> extremely exciting and what little we were told already has me anxiously
> awaiting the complete description write-up.
> 
> Aside: To the members of the Chicago Field Museum that are members of the
> list, I would like to take a moment and thank you for sharing your time
> with us when we visited.  We enjoyed the tour thoroughly.
> 


You're welcome!


chris


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