HORNBY ISLAND EXPLORERS AND THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY

Ja-dai-aich, the outer islandThere is an old saying that history is written by the victors. In paleontology, it is often written by whoever got to publish first.Villains, tyrants, heroes, eccentrics and the occasional delightful oddball all find a measure of immortality in the scientific literature. Every newly described species is gifted a scientific name, and for centuries many of the