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"""Dinosaur lunchbox, hidden in Smithsonian museum, features family and work mementos.""

""....Arlton Murray, who worked with fossils at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, hid his own time capsule in a dinosaur installation in 1947. The wooden box — containing Murray’s Boy Scout membership card and a note about one of the installations — was a surprise find five years ago as the museum’s Fossil Hall was taken apart for renovation....""

""...It took a bit of research to discover the significance of the Boy Scout card . . . Murray discovered his passion for fossils on a  Boy Scout outing. ""

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/?utm_term=.20cf958898ee 

He was a Scoutmaster in 1945..... 

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On 5/26/2019 at 6:36 AM, SSScout said:

""...It took a bit of research to discover the significance of the Boy Scout card . . . Murray discovered his passion for fossils on a  Boy Scout outing. ""

That's why the time and effort we all spend supporting scouting is so worthwhile.

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