On The Discovery Of A Palaeolithic Human Skull And Mandible In A Flint Bearing Gravel Overlying The

by Charles Dawson Arthur Smith Woodward

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First edition

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913; 1914; 1915; 1918. First edition, in the four original quarterly parts in which the Geological Society issued them, of the whole published case for Piltdown Man. The first paper announced a new genus of the human family, Eoanthropus dawsoni, before the Society at Burlington House on 18 December 1912; the second added the canine tooth and nasal bones of the following season;

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