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IN NATURE of March 9, 1935 a letter appeared from Prof. P. G. H. Boswell upon this subject, and I should like to comment upon certain issues raised. Prof. Boswell wrote: ” Unfortunately, it has not proved possible to find the exact site of either discovery, since the earlier expedition (of 1931–32) neither marked the localities on the ground nor recorded the sites on a map”. This sentence gives the impression that no adequate measures were taken to record the position of the discoveries. Actually; steps were taken which would have proved adequate had not all the photographs, taken especially for the purpose, failed owing to an unsuspected hole in the bellows of the camera. I did not record the sites on a map because there was no map of sufficient accuracy available, and I had not the means of making one at that time. I might have tried to obtain the services of a surveyor, but that would have been costly and I was saving all the money I could for a second visit to Oldoway, which I, at the time, believed was more important.
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LEAKEY, L. Fossil Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony. Nature 138, 643 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138643a0
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