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| Description | Correspondence relating to the donations of material to and from the sub-department of Anthropology, including;
Desmond Clark, J, University of California, Berkeley, human skeletal materials from Fingira Cave, Malawi
1 Letter to Molleson, T from Rodriguez, Joe relating to fibreglass cast of the Gibraltar Skull
1 Letter from Carter, P L, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, relating to casts of ‘occipital and parietal bones
Correspondence from Sieveking, G de G, British Museum, Department of Prehistory, relating to a donation from Mrs Rankine, W F from Mesolithic prehistoric living sites at Oakhanger, Hants, evacuated by her late husband.
8 cast illustrating ‘osteodontokeratic’ culture donated by Dr Cook
Terracotta cigar donated by Posnansky, Merrick University of Ghana
Kimberley Points in Glass & quartz, donated by Radclyffe, L E
Fibre-glass reconstruction of Zinjanthropus made by Tobias, Philip and Clarke, R J, donated by Leakey, L S B, Centre for Prehistory and Palaeontology, Kenya
Cast of the humerus fragment from Kanapoi by Patterson, B, Harvard University
Flint artifacts from Miss Oppe
Ox leg bone from Master Bernard
Receipt acknowledgements for; reproduction of Decorated Palaeolithic bone, Warhurst, Alan, The City Museum Bristol; casts of the bones of the Upper Palaeolithic human skeleton found in Paviland cave, Dean Buckland, Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru National Musuem of Wales; Verteszollos casts, British Museum; razor case, Horniman Museum
Correspondence relating to donations from Centre of Prehistory and Palaeontology, Nairobi; fibre glass cast of a skull of Early Pleistocene hominid Australopithecus and 20 fibre-glass casts of teeth and jaw fragments of earliest known hominid Kenyapitheous
1 Letter from Peter [surname unknown], University of Birmingham, relating to two boxes of hand axes, obsidian chips and fossilised bone found in Melka Kontoure, discovered by Dr J Dekker, 1963
List of material donated by L S B Leakey in September 1967
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