I hope to return to the discussion of missing links, here. It's not terribly deep---Conan Doyle is mostly interested in setting up dangers---but it has given me and a friend a different spin on the Lost World. It's fair to say the book could use some more dinosaurs, and amusing to see where they are described inaccurately, as it reminds us of how studies have progressed. I obtained this while looking for more Lost World discussion (there isn't much), courtesy Cold Crash Pictures Commentary: "A few months ago, eodromaeus was named (in a paper co-authored by Paul Soreno), and this guy appears to be even more primitive than eoraptor(previously thought of as the first dinosaur). In fact, eoraptor is now being interpreted by some scientists to represent an early sauropodomorph -- the earliest long-neck -- due to the shape of its skull and the distinctive first digit." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eodromaeus So, as you can see, paleontology's canon continues to ev...

The Ultimate Camping Expedition: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s the Lost World I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man Or the man who’s half a boy. -Sir Arthur Put me alone, sir, and with my back to the wall. G.E.C. is happiest then.—Professor George Edward Challenger The Ultimate Camping Trip. You have to credit the ingenuity of the story: an acclaimed scientist is denounced a fraud for speaking of his secret location, which holds the living secrets of history. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the country doctor with the slow practice who created Sherlock Holmes, set out to write a Boy’s Adventure that a creative girl could spin off into an all-female team nonetheless. The races of the people in the story could be updated, as could the knowledge, in places we’ve furthered our understanding of paleontology. Much like the mysteries in which Arthur formed his clues backwards from his solutions, here the good doc takes the most popular scientific fossils ...

November 8th The findings of Prof. Challenger and the committee