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A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute

Louis Pope Gratacap was the curator of mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History from 1880 until his death in 1917. He usually read during his three-hour round trip to the museum from Staten Island. He also wrote novels, and one of them, The New Northland (1915), may be the earliest novel to feature a Tyrannosaurus rex. — Read the rest The post A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute appeared first on Boing Boing.

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