  
Walter
Granger
(1872-1941) was an internationally recognized
fossil-collector, paleontologist, expeditioner and
author. He was a key figure in the study of
vertebrate paleontology from 1894 onward. His
collections, stratigraphic studies, and evaluations
of fossils and sites in North America, Egypt,
Europe, China and Mongolia make major contributions
to scientific and evolutionary studies--as well as
to the present holdings of the American Museum of
Natural History. His lifelong career at the
American Museum began in 1890 when he was just 17
years old. He received an honorary doctorate in
science from Middlebury College in 1932.
Anna
Granger
(1874-1952) married Walter in 1903. She lived in
China during much of the Central Asiatic
Expeditions from 1921-1930. She traveled by train,
boat and foot to Walter's remote wintertime
fieldwork sites in China's Sichuan and Yunnan
Provinces and even ventured onto the Gobi Plateau
to help send the CAE off to Mongolia. More than
once she experienced direct encounters with local
bandits, renegade troops and battling warlords,
especially in the Yangtze area. Anna was an amateur
horticulturist and anthropologist and published
several articles in Natural
History magazine.
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