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Granger's career was one of solid accomplishment in the field of collecting and analyzing fossils. Involved with some of the most important dinosaurian and mammalian fossil discoveries of his time, he labored mostly outside the public's eye, respected by his peers as possibly, in the words of his
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in 1894 and 1895, Granger became interested in hunting fossils. In 1896, he joined the museum's
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animals yet found and yielded a collection of specimens that enhanced the museum's reputation as well as
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region of Egypt contained one of the most complete assemblages of
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