Conclusion I
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The story of how one of the first dinosaur eggs ever discovered ended up at Colgate is compelling
from a scientific perspective. But it also comprises an inspirational lesson for our students
-- how the educated mind, serendipity, and a willingness to take risks and persevere can lead
to amazing discoveries.
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Conclusion II
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Colgate family members provided the commitment and vision that resulted in Colgate
University becoming home to one of the first dinosaur eggs known to science. Colgate
Board Presidents and Trustees aided financially (and otherwise) in the egg's discovery
in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1923; the egg was purchased in a national auction by a
Colgate family member -- a Trustee of Colgate's Board -- then donated to the university;
it was later stolen (but returned) by two students from the class of '58; a few years later it
survived the fire that burned down the Old Administration Building; and it's the ongoing
focus both of faculty-student research
and of educational outreach to local elementary school
students and their teachers.
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References
Photos from:
Paul, G.S., Dinosaurs of the air : the evolution and loss of flight in dinosaurs
and birds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002.
Colgate Viewbook, 2001.
Norell, Mark A. and Dingus, Lowell. A Nest of Dinosaurs: The Story of
Oviraptor. New York: Random House, Inc., 1999.
Wallace, Joseph. The American Museum of Natural History's Book of Dinosaurs and
Other Ancient Creatures. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Cover of Time magazine 29 October 1923.
American Museum of Natural History photo #310548 March 1924 by J. Kirschner.
"Egg Reappears after Hectic Weekend", The Colgate Maroon. March 1957.
Additional References:
Abbe, T. and Howson, H.A. Robert Colgate The Immigrant:
A Genealogy of the New York Colgates. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1941.
Andrews, R.C. The New Conquest of Central Asia. American Museum of Natural History, 1932.
Gallencamp, C. Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.
Viking Press, 2001.
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