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 * ... that Henri Lavachery, the first professional archaeologist to visit Easter Island, founded the Society of Americanists in Belgium?


 * ... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?


 * ... that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia?


 * ... that the moth lacewing genus Principiala is known for three, possibly four, fossils?


 * ... that naturalist Charles Darwin's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle?