100,000,000-year old race of redwoods : typescript, 1948.

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100,000,000-year old race of redwoods : typescript, 1948.

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San Francisco Chronicle feature on the discovery of ancient redwoods alive in China is subtitled "Science makes a spectacular discovery" and "Story of a tree whose family lived with the dinosaurs." The article describes U.C. Professor Ralph Chaney's trip to see the dawn redwood, or metasequoia, in the Szechwan province of China in 1948, and includes descriptions of the people and features of the region as well as of the redwoods. Typescript contains an introduction, a series of dispatches, and a biographical sketch of Dr. Ralph W. Chaney.

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Norris, Thomas W. (Thomas Wayne)

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Chaney, Ralph W. (Ralph Works), 1890-1971

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Ralph W. Chaney was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at the University of Chicago. From 1922 he was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution and from 1931 a professor of paleobotany at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for his ecological approach to paleobotany. From 1943 he was a member of the U.S. National Park Service Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and from 1928 a member and officer of the Save the Redwoods League. ...