1.3.02026-07-15brevRådata514828arkivdokumentStatens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museetSMVK-OMDokumenthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/514828E1A-2_0055sinantropus jaw, Mr Pei, lockhart laboratory, Neandethal005$, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE PEKING, CHINA. fps Loc aren 0 br [Pass ltr Rt0 a [2] Yeah es få VA (lar AJ I December 12, 1928, Dr, J.G, Andersson, Ostasiatiska Samlingarna, Sveavagen 65, - EE Stockholm, Sweden, Dear Dr, Andersson:- NS Just a line to let you know that we have had wonderful success in this last season's field work short as it was, Bohlin found the right half of an adult Sinanthropus jaw with 3 molars in situ = the ascending ramus missing but enough symphysis present to show its chinless anthropoid character, A score and more teeth of all kinds and ages have been recovered mostly from a level some 10 meters above the original Sinanthropus laver but from which we -have already recovered the symphysis region with incisors in situ of a Sinanthropus child and there appears to be the better part of a much crushed adult skull and a child's skull also - I finished working out the childts jaw from the travertine matrix today and it!'s much more primitive than Neanderthal - resembles Piltdown in many respects, Altogether we have enough material now to confirm all our deductions as to the presence of a very primitive and generalized hominid in the Polycene of N, China - and to keep me busy for months describing it, And almost daily further material is being recovered in the laboratory, Another adult molar Sinanthropus tooth from the blocks taken October 10, 1927 was recovered the dav before yesterday by Vr, Pei over at the Lockhart Hall laboratory, I have as yet no certainty that we can get further funds to continue the work but with all this success I am optimistie, Alas I was unable to do anything with regard to your work when in America, The prospect for immediate progress in that direction is not bright though something may happen within the next two or three years, I am also unable to say whether our plans for Caenozoiec Research can be developed or not since our programme for field work will of course have to depend on how much money if any I can raise, The Survey has no funds but I hope if they can be raised that the programme I shall suggest will prove acceptable to Dr. Wong; I shall write you as soon as I have any real news about it, Ting is back in Peking for a while - busy with Kwantung and Kwansi palaeozoic stuff he got this summer, He is in excellent health and spirits, Forgive this hasty chit but I want it to cateh the next mail and so bear our most cordial Christmas and New Year's greetings to you, Do let me know how you are anå how your work is going, Ever vours most sincerely, TS Cory gl wgasak SuaneMln Lak YT raalel 04 ; (un Be Sod fas KÅV lagar a ten 0 Åh ar mad PA hal va Ioedar n Mekeg Many, Pöridson- Black hu bg" a cold adl J öh 9 ERS = EE H Zedy fu og Å lstelned” SR av sla spel LifTillverkadBlack, Davidson1928-12-12MottagenAndersson, Johan Gunnarimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/tn/10057464/E1A-2_0055.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-om/web/image/zoom/10057463/E1A-2_0055.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#cc0Black, DavidsonUtgången upphovsrätthttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkiv/204081http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/25083033http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1239710http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/html/514828http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/xml/514828http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/rdf/514828