  
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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