Lost trunk – Winnipeg, 1930

Winnipeg Tribune 30 May 1930

[Auction]

Lot B-9060-35 boxes, 2 tin trunks, 1 crowbar, 1 small trunk.  Stored on July 7th, 1923 by the late Mr WE Cutler.

[Wonder what happened to the trunk? Just think what it could have contained – personal papers, fossils?]

Dinosaurs of the Red Deer Valley – 1923

Winnipeg Tribune, 3 Dec 1923

An illustrated lecture on “the Dinosaurs of the Red Deer Valley” will be given by WE Cutler in the old university building this evening at 8.15 before the Natural History Society of Manitoba.  This lecture will be open to the public.  As a collector of specimens for the British Museum Mr Cutler has a unique knowledge of this great natural storehouse of extinct fauna.

Westminster Gazette, 13 Feb 1924

IN search of the Dinosaur

Expedition to leave for Africa

Important discoveries are anticipated from an African Expedition which will leave the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, shortly, in search of the fossil remains of the dinosaur, a giant prehistoric animal, and human fossils, which may possibly be from half a million to a million years old.

The expedition will be led by Mr WE Cutler, of the University of Manitoba, who arrived in London yesterday.

In conversation with the Westminster Gazette yesterday, Mr Cutler explained that the dinosaur relics were unearthed by the Germans in what was then German East Africa, at a spot in Tendagaru, Taganyika Territory.

“The skeletons are of enormous size,” he said. “These reptiles were about 22 ft high and from 60 to 80 feet long, and it has been stated that the African specimens were even larger. They flourished from eight to ten million years ago.”

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