Expedition to the Desert of Fayoum, Egypt

Exist Dates

1907

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

To collect fossil remains of the ancestors of the elephant and other rare skeletons

Personnel: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, leader; Granger, Walter, sci.; Markgraf, R., sci.; Olsen, George, sci

Department: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology

Sponsors: Jesup, Morris K

Other: photos taken

Sources: AMNH Annual Report No. 39 for 1907, p. 60, 66; P.C. 2 Authority File; Osborn, " The Fayum Expedition of the American Museum". Science, Vol. XXV (No. 639) pp. 513-516, March 29, 1907. American Museum Journal, February, 1907, and April, 1907

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