| Content Warning | A review of the Archive catalogue and documents within the Archive relating to Anthropology identified that some contain information that may be offensive or distressing. This includes racist language, and descriptions of historical collecting and research methods. The Museum does not condone unacceptable language and practices of the past, but has not redacted these records to maintain authenticity and facilitate discovery of records for research, including study of the history of science and museums
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| Description | Letter to Kenneth Oakley from Jose E Terol Piqueras, Valencia, asking whether skeleton belongs to mummified human foetus, enclosing 4 colour transparencies, Jan 1965
Letter to Miss Jane Peacock, London regarding build of 16th century men, 4 May 1959
Letter from Rosemary Powers to Kenneth Oakley in hospital, enclosing painting of Anamorphoscope at the Science Museum and discussing how The Ambassadors may have been painted
Sketch of 'exploded' Piltdown skull
Memo to Kenneth Oakley from Rosemary Powers regarding Dr Desmond Morris, 11 Jun 1969 and attached memo from GF Elliott regarding Tertiary bryozoan-limestone fork handle, 30 May 1969
Memo to Rosemary Powers from Kenneth Oakley congratulating for field research on Porosphaera bead groups, 17 Mar 1970
Notes on 'Monsters' to Rosemary Powers, 17 Mar 1969
Envelope containing scraps, labelled 'Fossils from Archaeological Sites: Ammonites, Belemnites and...'
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