美国自然历史博物馆的恐龙也许比它的其他任何展品都更引人注目。可是在1897年,一位名叫巴纳姆·布朗(Barnum Brown)的年轻的学生来到这所博物馆时,那里还没有一块恐龙标本。1963年,在离他90岁生日还差一周,他死去时,博物馆已囊括了世界上最大的、最重要的标本,它们之中许多是由布朗挖掘的。在66年的科学生涯中,他发掘的恐龙比任何人都多,这所博物馆的许多出色的标本,其中包括霸王龙, The dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History may have drawn more attention than any of its other exhibits. But in 1897, when a young student named Barnum Brown arrived at the museum, there was not yet a specimen of dinosaurs. In 1963, just a week after his 90th birthday, when he died, the museum had included the largest and most important specimens of the world, many of them dug by Brown. During his 66-year career in science, he discovered more dinosaurs than anyone else, and many of the museum’s excellent specimens, including Tyrannosaurus rex,