1.3.02026-11-11brevRådata205321arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/205321E1A-1_0458-0459, E1A-1_0458, E1A-1_04590457, ut 4 Bohlin is quite confident he will find more bits of Homo pekimMensis when he comes to clean up the blocks of material in the laboratory - We have now in Peking some 50 boxes of material which we got in last July when the last military crisis was on but there are more than 300 large boxes yet to come from Chou Kou Tien, Mr, Li of the Survey is busy trying to get railcers to bring back this material, It will > more than fill two carsi Today I have arranged for storage space for this stuff in the basement at Lockhart Hall where it will be handy for Bohlin working upstairs in the Cainozoie Labora- tory, Work in the latter will be going full tilt next week and. I would give a& lot to have you here to see it, We have used till now slightly less than half our appropriation and still have about $13,000 for next year, I have completed the preliminary work on Pere Teilhard's Ordos tooth and there is every reason to suppose it is of palaeolithice origin, The description will come out in the Bull, Geol, Soc, before I leave I hope, I have my whole laboratory staff busy on the Kansu prehistorie materiel and by November 28th if all goes well we will have all the seriation and calculation of variebility constants completed as well as all the cranial type contours, I will take all these records home with me and do the actual Wweiting in can be begun about next March instead of awaiting my return, DUE I am looking forward keenly to bein summer but of course it is too early fet for me to be able to Forgive the inordinate length of this letter: and letters are such a poor way of telking There is so much to tell you With most cordial regards to you and Mrs, Andersson, I remein as ever Very sincerely yours, SrDy IMa Davidson Black = ”04758, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE PEKING, CHINA. October 29, 1927, Dr, J,.G, Andersson, Ostasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavagen 65, Stockholm, Sweden, Dear Dr, Andersson:- Thank you so much for your welcome letter of October 6th which reached me this afternoon, I will be delighted to get a statement from you about the Chou Kou Tien deposit for its age determination and correlation with Western horizons are becoming questions of very major importance as you will gather when I tell you we have gore besus tiful human tooth at last! I was going to telegraph you but as Wong Wen Hao was in Harbin I waited for an answer to my wire to him asking when he would return so we could make the > important announcement, His telegram has now come and he will not be back for a month and suggested postponing the announcement till the January meeting of the Geological Society, Ås I expect to leave here the first week in December I won't be able to wait so long and I have written urging him to authorize the immediate publication of a fascicle of Series D Palaeontologia Sinica devoted to the description of the tooth, I hope he will agree and that I may see it published before I leave, I have spent more than a week now in an in- tensive study of the specimen and have prepared most of the text illustrations, The photographs are being done to-morrow and the X-rays on Monday so I can finish my part of -— the work relatively quickly, The tooth is a perfectly preserved first lower permanent left molar of a young individual, Calcification of the root tips had not proceeded to completion and the tooth may well have come from the same jaw as Zdansky!'s premolar, There must be at least two individuals represented in the deposit for the worn upper molar could not belong to an individual in the stage of development represented by lower molar and premolar specimens, It is truly glorious news is it not; And the entire credit of the find and indeed the splendid work all through is due to Bohlin though of course Li contributed a very important share by carrying out Bohlin!s Suggestions, Bohlin is a splendid and enthusiastie worker who refused to permit local disecomforts or military crises interfere with his in- vestigation, Wong telegraphed from Dairen on October lOth urging me to re about coming to Peking, Some days later I sent dollars 'so as to be sure they had sufficient fun a yt was relatively large, I could'nt eco e work that demanded resence h i RR Pr gen RE pr ere, Hsieh could'nt reach Chou Kou Tien on account Mn my ra there I found Bohlir - and covered with dust but JUST shining with happiness, He had finished th RER Reg S 1 e season's work in svit ” He 00 eg he had found the tooth; being right on the Spot when Fyr Får 23 Ne matrixt My word I was excited and elated! 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