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Brown, Barnum

LC control no.n 85146818
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Personal name headingBrown, Barnum
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Variant(s)Bones, Mr., 1873-1963
Birth date1873-02-12
Death date1963-02-05
Place of birthOsage County (Kan.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityPaleontology
AffiliationUniversity of Kansas
Profession or occupationPaleontologists
Found inBird, R.T. Bones for Barnum Brown, c1985.
Brown, F.R. Let's call him Barnum, c1987: p. 1, etc. (Barnum Brown; b. 2/12/1873; d. 2/5/63)
Wikipedia, via WWW, Oct. 8, 2012 (born in Carbondale, Kansas; paleontologist who discovered the first Tyrannosaurus rex)
Strange science, via WWW, Oct. 8, 2012 (attended Kansas University, 1894)
Wikipedia, January 10, 2019 (Barnum Brown; Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873--February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist; named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum, he discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century; he was born in Carbondale, Kansas and died in New York City, New York)
Associated languageeng