ocr: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC From the Editor IN 1890 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY grantee Israel C. Russell returned from an expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska. with fossil-bearing rocks. They marked the begin- ning of the Society's long fascination with ancient life-forms. The Society's Committee for Research and Exploration has funded scores of paleontological studies, from mammoth skeletons in Wyoming to prehistoric pollen in Madagascar. In 1933 explorer Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum ofN Natural History wrote a NATIONAL GEO- GRAPHIC article recounting his discovery of dinosaur eggs in ...
