been stored at the school of mines. >> my first contact with mr. maurice williams was when he came to aberdeen for a series of meetings to discuss what he should do with this fossil. the idea that i had was to convene like a panel of paleontologists to do an in-depth study of this fossil with the hopes that it would end up in a museum somewhere. but in the meantime, while this is being discussed, mr. williams decided that he would rather sell the fossil. >> morris williams had a stack of proposals from all sorts of people, all over the place. i mean, everybody wanted it. i called up morris and i said, i'm going to come out to south dakota if you want and i'll visit with you. and he said great. and i actually visited the boxes in which sue was located in the south dakota school of mines.