Brown will always be remembered as the man who discovered Tyrannosaurus rex, but this was just the start of his career. He developed such an eye for fossils that he steadily progressed from a fossil-collecting grunt worker to the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum, the scientist in charge of the world’s finest dinosaur collection. Today, if you visit its spectacular dinosaur halls, many of the fossils you’ll see were collected by Brown and his teams. No wonder that Lowell Dingus, one of my former colleagues in New York who wrote a biography of Brown, refers to him as
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Barnum Brown, who worked for Osburn.
