A giggle or two

[deborahjross]

Check out suricattus's blog on Living Will today. But make sure your keyboard is protected against explosions of tea, etc.

In cataloging our library, I came across a third edition of Romer's Man and the Vertebrates from 1941. Lots of old-fashioned pics of dinosaurs and the like. I paged through, flipped open to "A comparative series of skulls of fossil apes and men." They were:

A. Australopithecus
B. Pithecanthropus
C. Sinanthropus
D. Neanderthal
E. Piltdown
F. Cro-Magnon

Piltdown??? Yep. It wasn't revealed as a hoax until 1953. We're keeping the book as a reminder of academic folly.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Giggle.

[lingster1.livejournal.com]

I think you have a typo in that link. (It doesn't work.)

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Oops. That's what happens when I type in the name instead of cut and paste. I fixed it and tested it, so it should work. You'll have to scroll down an entry or two.