own imperial mammoth" or "to our great 

 sulphur-bottomed whale." and Osborn 

 loved it. Even in later years, when the two 

 had their fundamental disagreements 

 about the evolution of humankind, Osborn 

 harbored no hostility toward Gregory. The 

 same could not be said about the Os- 

 bom-Matthew relationship, however. 



Gregory was a gentle and in many re- 

 spects an unworldly soul. Aside from his 

 anatomical studies, he never worked with 

 his hands. I cannot picture him, for in- 

 stance, using a hammer, saw, or screw- 

 driver to fashion some useful object for his 

 study. One day he was coming back to the 

 American Museum from lunch (he lived 

 nearby) thinking his thoughts, when sud- 

 denly he stumbled into a coal-hole in the 

 sidewalk. Such apertures for delivering 

 coal to the brownstone houses were com- 

 mon features on the old slate sidewalks of 

 Manhattan. In this instance the workmen, 

 after having delivered a load of coal, had 

 failed to put the heavy cast iron cover back 

 in place. Gregory scrambled out of the 

 hole a bit soiled, and indignantly rang the 

 doorbell of the nearby dwelling, planning 

 to give the owner what for. But when a 

 sweet old lady came to the door, Gregory 

 forgot his wrath and wound up the situa- 

 tion by manfully replacing the dusty iron 

 cover with his own hands. 



In addition to his detailed, comprehen- 

 sive knowledge of all the land vertebrates, 

 or backboned animals, Gregory was a uni- 

 versally recognized authority on the evo- 

 lution of fishes. He knew not only the 

 primitive fishes as seen in the fossil record 

 but also the myriad modem bony fishes. 

 He was an authority on the mammallike 

 reptiles, so abundantly represented in the 

 fossil record of South Africa, as well as on 

 the evolution and relationships of marsu- 



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