Man's Place among the Mammals
London, Edward Arnold, 1929 [first edition].
Octavo, xii, 372, 8 (publisher's catalogue) pages with 160 illustrations (many by the author) plus 12 pages of plates.
Blind-ruled blue cloth lightly rubbed and very slightly flecked; front flyleaf offset; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper unevenly sunned, and a little creased, chipped, and torn, with a diamond shape (presumably where the price label was) excised from the spine.
With the ownership signature of Dr Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated March 1930. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson'. The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to her career as a doctor particularly during her time at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London'. (PRG 1415/21, National Library of Australia). Loosely inserted is a large newspaper clipping (folded three times and slightly sunned); an obituary of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937) by the author. Frederic Wood Jones (1879-1954), 'anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist ... The foundation of his work in anthropology was laid when, granted leave as demonstrator at the 'London', he obeyed a summons from (Sir) Grafton Elliot Smith, professor of anatomy, Cairo, to join the archaeological survey of Nubia, made urgent because the raising in height of the Aswan Dam would soon flood important sites. Elliot Smith had academic duties in Cairo and, after a few weeks training, Wood Jones was left as his deputy to examine, in the trying conditions of desert camps, the human relics from thousands of burials of widely ranging antiquity. The quality of his work won Elliot Smith's admiration, and their results were published in the second volume of "The Archaeological Survey of Nubia: Report for 1907-1908" (Cairo, 1910). Wood Jones [then] gained experience as an academic anatomist through teaching posts at the medical schools of the London, St Thomas's and the Royal Free hospitals, and at the University of Manchester ... in 1927 he accepted an invitation to the Rockefeller chair of physical anthropology at the University of Hawaii. There he wrote "The Matrix of the Mind" (Honolulu, 1928) with the psychologist S. D. Porteus and "Man's Place Among the Mammals" (London, 1929), a sequel to "Arboreal Man", in which he set out his unorthodox views on the evolution of man whom he considered to be more nearly related to Tarsius than to the great apes.' (Australian Dictionary of Biography).
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