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Fossilimerick 

 Don't be like the hungry Diniehthys — 

 A creature wlio had the mean trick, this, 

 Of de{)en(ling for chow 

 On his buddies, 1 vow: 

 But from now on, be a Phihinthropist. 



Sociahmerick 

 The youth was a terrible dancer, 

 But he'd managed somehow to entrance her; 

 And when he murmured: ''Gee, 

 How can you dance with me?" 

 She said: "On my Trilbys I'm taking a chance. Sir. 



Visitor (entering Department of Anthropology Office): "Can you 

 tell me where I can find a good specimen of armadillo? " 



Dr. Goddard: "Certainly. Go right to the end of the hall there 

 and ask to see Mr. Noble." 



» 

 Mr. Robert McAnuff, who presides over the fourth floor, was ap- 

 proached by a stranger who had seen the picture hanging over the Chief 

 of Construction's Office, and who asked in a timid manner: "Please, 

 Mister, can I go in and see the Home of the Elk? " 



The late Mrs. Vaughan was taking a number of small boys through the 

 Hall of Fossil Mammals. She went to some pains to explain that what 

 they saw was only the bony skeleton of the great dinosaur, and that the 

 metal tubes had been placed as support for the great weight of the bones. 

 When she had finished speaking, a boy asked: "Please, missus, how did 

 he eat?" At which another boy cut in rjuickly, "He et through the 

 tubes," 



Visitor: " Meester, meester, where are the trenches? " 



Attendant : ' ' What trenches? ' ' 



Visitor: "The ones thev used in the war," 



