Did you know? The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the last 100 years has displayed a large Triceratops (Triceratops horridus) skeleton in Washington DC.  It is 70 - 65 million years old, and of the Late Cretaceous Period (Triceratops means "three-horned face" in Greek)  It was discovered in Niobrara County, Wyoming and originally collected by John Bell HATCHER in 1891. He mounted it in 1905 for the Smithsonian Museum. Unfortunately, Hatcher used the wrong leg and foot bones, which were not discovered for almost a century.  In 2001, the skeleton was remounted using artificial, but anatomically correct, bones. To make the skeleton more visitor-friendly, a contest was held by the Smithsonian to name the famous dinosaur skeleton.  The winning name was "HATCHER". (www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/triceratops/index.html) Do any of our Hatcher researchers know the lineage of the namesake of our country's most famous triceratop? Dave Davis  DAVID DAVIS ASSOCIATES - ARCHITECTS 40 Broadview Drive / St. Louis, MO 63105 [email protected]

Hi Dave, Aha! Your query tells me that you haven't yet had a chance to find your way through the "loaner copy" of my little book, A HATCHER MIGRATION STORY, that I sent you a while back. John Bell Hatcher has a 10 page spread between pages 172 and 182. Other than directing your attention to those pages, there is no hurry about returning the book as there is currently no one on the waiting list to "borrow" the book for a peek. Regards. John Chipman. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Davis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:04 PM Subject: [HATCHER] SMITHSONIAN'S 'HATCHER' Did you know? The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the last 100 years has displayed a large Triceratops (Triceratops horridus) skeleton in Washington DC. It is 70 - 65 million years old, and of the Late Cretaceous Period (Triceratops means "three-horned face" in Greek) It was discovered in Niobrara County, Wyoming and originally collected by John Bell HATCHER in 1891. He mounted it in 1905 for the Smithsonian Museum. Unfortunately, Hatcher used the wrong leg and foot bones, which were not discovered for almost a century. In 2001, the skeleton was remounted using artificial, but anatomically correct, bones. To make the skeleton more visitor-friendly, a contest was held by the Smithsonian to name the famous dinosaur skeleton. The winning name was "HATCHER". (www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/triceratops/index.html) Do any of our Hatcher researchers know the lineage of the namesake of our country's most famous triceratop? Dave Davis DAVID DAVIS ASSOCIATES - ARCHITECTS 40 Broadview Drive / St. Louis, MO 63105 [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message