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The attached commitments kept him from commencing his university studies until the relatively advanced age of twenty-four. Enrolling at the university of
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had a sprawling, lizard-like gait with widely splayed legs. Tornier had arrived at the same conclusion and forcefully supported Hay's argument, arguing that the tail couldn't physically have made the curve down to the ground. To solve this issue, he lowered the entire animal.
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at the university, whilst later also accepting the post of head librarian at the museum (1903), assistant director of the museum (1921), and finally director
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Also, Tornier is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of
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