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| Description | Former ref: AL 1955/9
Donation from M Wood of a human crania
Donation of skeletal material from Caerwys, donated in 1960 by T Powell, University of Liverpool Anatomy Department, related Natural History Museum specimen 1955.19.10.5
Donation of a cast of the Willendorf Venus made by Jame Baudet, l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
1 Letter from Kenneth P Oakley to Chester Beatty Esq dated 21 Sep 1955, relating to primate skulls
1 Letter from F C Fraser to the Borough Librarian, Poplar, dated 2 Mar 1955, relating to a skull of a dolphin and a mummified head
Correspondence between Kenneth P Oakley, and R B K Stevenson, National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, relating to a donation of non-European palaeolithic material
1 Letter from Kenneth P Oakley to H de Shortt dated 23 Aug 1951, relating to the Blackmore Collection of fossil mammalian bones |