Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
American Museum of Natural History: New York [38] Bear Mountain State Park (Geology Museum) [39] Buffalo Museum of Science: Buffalo [40] Cambridge High School (New York) Cambridge [41] Museum of the Earth: Ithaca [42] New York State Museum: Albany [43] Orange County Community College: Middletown [44] Rochester Museum and Science Center ...
PRI was founded in 1932 by Gilbert Harris, a professor of geology at Cornell University from 1894 to 1934. Frustrated by the university's lack of assurance for the safety and perpetuation of his fossil collections and printing enterprise, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Harris established PRI as a separate organization, unaffiliated with Cornell, to house his collection of fossils and ...
BYU Museum of Paleontology, August 2010. The Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology was started in 1976 around the collection of James A. Jensen.For many years, it was known as the BYU Earth Science Museum, [1] and most of the collection was in storage under the LaVell Edwards Stadium.
The Western Science Center (WSC), formerly the Western Center for Archaeology & Paleontology, [1] is a museum located near Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California.The WSC is home to a large collection of Native American artifacts and Ice Age fossils that were unearthed at Diamond Valley Lake, including "Max", the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian ...
The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The museum is within the Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB), designed by George W. Kelham and completed in 1930.
During the four years that spanned from 1972 to 1976, rocks and fossils were stocked at the BYU football stadium until a specific building was constructed in 1976 for the BYU Earth Science Museum, [5] known in the present day as the BYU Museum of Paleontology. Under the direction of the BYU Earth Science Museum, the quarry has been excavated ...
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a paleontology museum in Claremont, California, that is part of The Webb Schools. It is the only nationally accredited museum on a secondary school campus in the United States. [1] The museum has two circular 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition halls and 20,000 unique annual visitors.
African slaves also contributed their knowledge to the early study of paleontology in the United States. The first reasonably accurate recorded identification of vertebrate fossils in the new world was made by slaves on a South Carolina plantation who recognized the elephant affinities of mammoth molars uncovered there in 1725. [ 57 ]