European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Chip Oil the old Block Wilt com Stompor gathering shale specimens near Hann air xray eyesight by Rick Maze slut writer if Yuu heard the Story of a German professor Daktor doktor who spent his weekends driving around in a Mobile Laboratory von taking rays of you might think he was slightly but far from being off his Wilhelm working on a Grant from the Volkswagen found is looking for a a mathematician and Stumer focuses his xray machine not at ribs and skulls but at of developing methods of studying Devoni Anage fossils by taking rays of specimens in the the head o the giant Siemens corporations medical research chemical development Branch at slum or works on his Fossil project in the mountainous huns Rock area near Hahn air base Only on in he is a guest lecturer at the Venity of Methode Island and at two German an exhibition of his finds recently opened in the Rotunda of the smithsonian institution in i am proud to show my he but they Are not handling it As i would they have chosen the display not by the importance of the individual item but by its they Are looking for something appealing to the they have left some of the Mast important finds off their Walls because they feel the radiographs Lack during a recent interview at his excavation site looking he said that the use of the xray is not new in finding and identifying Only nine months after Wilhelm Conrad Fri Entgens discovery of the xray in scientists in Berlin and Paris experimented with the machine to inspect palaeontologists working without Benefit at the x Rny often pass Over marginal rocks which might contain a Lossell because they Arent certain what  even those Elln a screening process la their Laboratory leave Many possible specimens in the Field because of the difficulties in moving tons of Stumer said beae scientists realize they might be passing Over uni Kaut but it is impossible far them to haul every piece of Nek to their Labora and his two xray technicians screen about 3d pieces of shale a Day in their Blue radiological which can be driven right to the excavation they Are Able to screen even the marginal pieces of for trans porting the Rock Means carrying it As Little As 1 feel from the Rock pile to the Only one in 10 of the prayed pieces of shale contains a Fossil one in 100 of the fossils is meaning not chipped or and one of every Good Fos Sils is a significant he palaeontologists consider the got Anderi with its Gem Woja to be one of the two Best sources in the there 380millionyearold Black shale was deposited in the form of mud and Fine Sand on the floor of what is called the devonian a similar area was mind in upstate new not quite As but fossils there were also wet Stumer and other scientists now avoid thai excavation for Amateur Archeo logistic have ruined Stiltner said trying to make Money by sell ing fossils to the have ruined the site As far As Sci ence is the vertical Mound of shale which Stumer and several German archaeology students have been working at for seven years is protected by electric fences and barbed but Stumer really Doest care about the fossils be has collected Lor More than seven i Only collect the xray of which i have about i ant interested Only in the method of finding the i give the actual faults away for further palaeontology u Only my 1 am very Content just to work with the x Amateur palaeontologists often bring pieces of shale they suspect to hold fossils to Stumer for i gel the and they gel to see what is in the Rock and get their Rock it is very stumpers method for locating the fossils is much the same its that of other Stumer or one of the College students who works at the site on weekends slowly chips away at layers of looking for rust which indicate about w per cent of the specimen of a sea Illy assembled for Page 14 the stars and stripes prehistoric sea Star among Roost frequently