16th Mar, 2023 11:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 147
 

Hopwood. Fossil Elephant Teeth from India. Original Mss and artwork 1921

Hopwood (Arthur Tindell).

Fossil Elephant Teeth from India.

Original Mss and artwork 1921

a collection of 4 files with typed manuscripts and copies on the Calcutta Collections, Teeth from Chinji, Middle and Upper Siwaliks of the Punjab (another copy); Genus: Choerolophodon Schlessinger, 1917, etc. (another copy), togetherall the original artwork and photographs of artwork for the fossil elephant teeth, contained withing chemis' and solander box,

Arthur Tindell Hopwood ( July 15, 1897October 22, 1969 ) was a British paleontologist .

Hopwood came from a family of artists and studied zoology and geology in Manchester before becoming curator at the Natural History Museum from 1924 . There he worked on fossil mammals. Hopwood was close friends with George Gaylord Simpson .

In 1933 he first described the fossil ape genus Proconsul , more precisely the species Proconsul africanus . He named her after Consul , a monkey from London Zoo .

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