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3 unusual facts about Clive Forster Cooper


Clive Forster Cooper

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1936 and knighted in 1946 He was also a foreign member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Museum.

He returned to Cambridge University, where he organized an expedition to collect large mammalian fauna, including specimens of the gigantic rhinoceros Baluchitherium, from the Bugti beds of Baluchistan.

He spent a year in America working closely Osborn, Matthew, Walter W. Granger and W. K. Gregory, studying the American collections of fossil mammals, and taking part in one of Granger's collecting expeditions to Wyoming.



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Eohippus

Its similarities with fossils described by Richard Owen were formally pointed out in a 1932 paper by Sir Clive Forster Cooper.