Miocene Anthracotheriidae from East Africa. by MacInnes, D.G

London: British Museum (Natural History). , 1957. 4to. Pp. [ii],36, 3 photos on 1 pl., 16 figs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Megapendetes pentadactylus n.gen., n.sp.

BM(NH), 1957. (ii), 35, 1 plate, 16 text figs . . PB. Vg.. .

Unpublished [n.d., but ca 1938.] 4to (26.0 x 20.4 cm). Original typed manuscript with 336 pp.; 143 original photographs in various sizes, and some original drawn maps. Full contemporary dark blue cloth with gilt title on spine. = A very neat and interesting manuscript by the British mammalogist and palaeontologist Donald Gordon MacInnes who participated in Louis Leakey's famous 1932 and 1935 expeditions in search of fossil hominids. It contains five parts, as follows; Part I: Some Miocene Proboscidea from East Africa; Part II: Some post-Miocene Proboscidea from East Africa; Part III: Rhinocerotidae; Part IV: Some Miocene Anthracotheriidae from East Africa. Part V: Preliminary notes on the remainder of the collection. This includes original photos of fossil bones of the possible hominid precursor Proconsul. Several of these manuscripts, which contain descriptions of new species, were published, but their illustrations were always much smaller. The rear contains a copy of a published paper: A new… Read More