Boro Nut

Wasn't he the man who first discovered "a series of low stone walls"?

Per Ahlberg

This message is coming to you from the Natural History Museum, formerly British Museum (Natural History), and in fact from Colin Patterson's old office, so I guess it can claim a certain authority... The confusion arises because this museum started out as the natural history department of the British Museum (which is much the older institution), only gradually achieving independence after moving to a separate site in the 1880s.

Needless to say, the creationist claim about Piltdown man is complete garbage - not a shred of truth in it.


Per

Oolon Colluphid

... and as Per has mentioned in <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=58&t=000311" target="_blank">this thread</a>, the NHM is putting on "a 'Dino-birds' exhibition in July, featuring a range of Chinese feathered dinosaurs and primitive birds, along with our very own Archaeopteryx." Not quite the same as 'studying' it, perhaps, but bloody anyone can wander in off the street and see it for themselves.

It’s perhaps also worth noting that there is not one specimen of Archie, as implied by “not being allowed to study it” claim; at last count there were eight specimens. See:
<a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/info.html" target="_blank">http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/archaeopteryx/info.html</a>

Cheers, Oolon