Detail Surveying and Exploration in Relation to the Management of Eastern Timberlands

A brochure explaining the forestry services provided by F. C. Hinckley of Bangor, Maine, circa 1900, including general timber estimates, detail timber estimates, water power estimates, and land surveying

Outline for Address on Moosehead Lake Park and Camping Reserve Project

It is proposed to develop for recreational and health about 100,000 acres of forest land extending eastward from the shore of Moosehead Lake to Katahdin Iron Works and Lake Onawa, in the following manner: 1. Purchase of about 70,000 acres of land. 2. A scenic toll road of about 35 miles extending from Moosehead Lake over Lily Bay and Katahdin Iron Works Mountains to Katahdin Iron Works and the public highway in Brownville, supplemented by a branch road of 13 miles from Katahdin Iron Works along the slope of Chairback Mountain Range to the public highway at Lake Onawa and by additional roads or trails to principal lakes of the tract and other points of recreational interest, totalling about 70 miles. 3. A modern recreational hotel on the shore of Moosehead Lake supplemented by a series of camps and camp grounds along the route of the proposed toll road or its branches. 4. The sale of developed and undeveloped land for private camps around hotel or camp centers and elsewhere. 5. A health organization for persons in ill health who are not contagious or hospital cases, based on supervision of a physician, supplemented by a host who shall carry out physicians\u27 prescriptions for exercise as recreational activity. Frank C. Hinckley / 39 Hammon Street / Bangor, Maine January 14, 1932 / Amended March 19, 1932 / Amended April 20, 1932https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1047/thumbnail.jp

A NEW OREODONT SLAB

A slab of pale, reddish-brown sandstone, exhibiting the articulated skeletons of two oreodonts, has been placed on display in the west corridor on the first floor of Morrill Hall. Apparently, a female and well-grown young one lay down together and perished, perhaps from disease, or from chilling winds. They must have been buried quickly, for all of the bones are present, are in perfect condition, and are in articulation, especially in the old one. In the adult the articulation is complete from the ungual phalanges of the two forefeet to the terminal caudal, even though in the figure the skeleton is somewhat obscured in the pelvic region by the overlying hind quarters of the young animal. The left foreleg is hidden by the skull. The sternal ribs, as well as the ribs, are in place. The bones are firm, and of ivory whiteness, and show up well against the brownish sandstone. This fine specimen was found in the Gering formation (Lower Miocene) near Birdcage Gap, Morrill County, Nebraska, by the field parties operating there in September 1931, and was dug out later by Mr. and Mrs. C. Bertrand Schultz, students in the University of Nebraska, and assistants in the museum. By them it was later prepared for exhibition

A New Giant Camel \u3ci\u3eGIGANTOCAMELUS FRICKI\u3c/i\u3e, gen. et sp. nov.

A lower Pleistocene deposit containing fossil vertebrates near Broadwater, Morrill county, Nebraska, has been reported upon by the writers, beginning three years ago. Five fossil quarries have been opened since the site was discovered in 1936

THE SCOTTSBLUFF BISON QUARRY AND ITS ARTIFACTS

The association of artifacts with extinct bison bones in a quarry near Grand Island, Hall County Nebraska,1 and from one in Custer County, Nebraska, have already been reported.2 In the meantime, continued search has been rewarded, and a large bed of fossil bison with associated flint implements found. The discovery, if not of actual consequence, at least adds something to the accumulating evidence that Pleistocene man in America may have been a reality

THE NEBRASKA METEOR AND METEORITE OF AUGUST 8, 1933

At approximately 10:30 a. m., mountain standard time, on August 8, 1933, a large meteor, traveling in a westerly direction, exploded over the panhandle of Nebraska. The phenomenon was witnessed by many citizens throughout the region, and by a number of students from the University of Nebraska, who were engaged at the time in palaeontological field work in northwestern Nebraska

\u3ci\u3eParabos dodsoni\u3c/i\u3e Barbour and Schultz: A Correction

A Bos-like animal, Parabos dodsoni, was recently described by Barbour and Schultz (1941, A New Fossil Bovid from Nebraska , Bull. Univ. Nebr. State Museum, Vol. II, No. 7, pp. 63-66, Figs. 24-27, December) as a new genus and species from the Pleistocene of Nebraska. Attention has been called to the writers by Dr. E. H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History that the name Parabos is preoccupied. Parabos was introduced as a generic name by C. Arambourg and J. Piveteau (1929, Note preliminaire sur un Ruminant du Pliocene inferieur du Roussillon, C. R. Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, 4th Ser., XXIX, pp. 144-146). Unfortunately the reference was missed by the present writers as well as by the editors of the Zoological Record (1929-1939). The writers propose the name Platycerabos to replace Parabos for the new American bovid. The corrected designation would thus be Platycerabos dodsoni (Barbour and Schultz). The occurrence of a Bos-like form from the Pleistocene of North America is unique. It has long been thought that the migration of true bovines from Asia to North America during the Pleistocene was limited to Bison, but the discovery of Platycerabos dodsoni has altered this belief

PALAEONTOLOGIC AND GEOLOGIC CONSIDERATION OF EARLY MAN IN NEBRASKA

There has been much discussion recently relative to the geologic age of Yuma and Folsom artifacts. The writers submit the following palaeontological and geological data which may aid in a better interpretation of the subject. This paper deals with three localities in Nebraska where Yuma and Folsom implements have been found with extinct mammals; namely, the Scottsbluff Bison Quarry, the Sand Hill blow-out sites, and the Sioux County artifact sites

THE MOUNTED SKELETON OF BISON OCCIDENTALIS, AND ASSOCIATED DART-POINTS

A composite skeleton of Bison occidentalis was mounted and installed in its case on the lower floor of Morrill Hall, on April 22, 1932. The skeleton in itself is attractive because of its size and excellent preservation, and is rendered additionally interesting by two dart-points, one found under the scapula, and the other under the ribs

\u3ci\u3eParabos dodsoni\u3c/i\u3e Barbour and Schultz: A Correction

A Bos-like animal, Parabos dodsoni, was recently described by Barbour and Schultz (1941, A New Fossil Bovid from Nebraska , Bull. Univ. Nebr. State Museum, Vol. II, No. 7, pp. 63-66, Figs. 24-27, December) as a new genus and species from the Pleistocene of Nebraska. Attention has been called to the writers by Dr. E. H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History that the name Parabos is preoccupied. Parabos was introduced as a generic name by C. Arambourg and J. Piveteau (1929, Note preliminaire sur un Ruminant du Pliocene inferieur du Roussillon, C. R. Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, 4th Ser., XXIX, pp. 144-146). Unfortunately the reference was missed by the present writers as well as by the editors of the Zoological Record (1929-1939). The writers propose the name Platycerabos to replace Parabos for the new American bovid. The corrected designation would thus be Platycerabos dodsoni (Barbour and Schultz). The occurrence of a Bos-like form from the Pleistocene of North America is unique. It has long been thought that the migration of true bovines from Asia to North America during the Pleistocene was limited to Bison, but the discovery of Platycerabos dodsoni has altered this belief