The Solution of the Piltdown Problem

Pp. (1), 139-146; 2 black-and-white plates.  Publisher’s original blue wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, lg 8vo.  Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, volume 2, no. 3.  The ‘Piltdown Man’ was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human.  This paper reveals the hoax and how it was perpetrated.  Signature of H. Dighton Thomas at the top corner of the front wrapper.  Handwritten letter to H. Dighton Thomas about the controversy from Mary S. Johnston is laid in at the front.  Rare paper.

Publisher	British Museum (Natural History)
Publisher Place	London
Date Published	1953
Date Published Estimated	No
Edition	First edition
Number of Volumes	1
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Condition	Very good
Condition Description	A very good copy.
ISBN
Limited Edition