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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811132803321

Autore

Albers Paulinus Cornelis Hendricus <1965->

Titolo

Through Eugène Dubois' eyes [[electronic resource] ] : stills of a turbulent life / / by Paul C.H. Albers, John de Vos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-03907-9

9786613039071

90-04-19329-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles

Altri autori (Persone)

VosJohn de

Disciplina

599.9

599.9092

Soggetti

Physical anthropologists - Netherlands

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Introduction / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Personal Stuff / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- The Book Part I: The Indonesian Collection / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Distractions / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- The Book Part II: The Peltenburg Era / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Epilogue / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Appendix I. The Brill Correspondence / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Appendix II. Glass Negatives And Positives / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Appendix III. Selection Of Photographs / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos -- Acknowledgements / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos.

Sommario/riassunto

Eugène Dubois, the man who found the “missing link” between apes and humans, intended to write a book about his finds in Indonesia. He never finished it. In this current volume the outlines of Dubois’ book are reconstructed. Recently discovered correspondence with his intended publisher shed new light on the troublesome character of Dubois and his inability to communicate with the scientific establishment. This volume also discloses the vast amount of photographic material that is part of the Dubois Collection at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands. As Pat Shipman summarizes it in her preface: “[...] what this book offers, it is more: more images, more letters, more details, more insight into the



workings of a brilliant but unquestionably difficult man of science. We shall not see Dubois' like again so it is doubly fortunate that Albers and de Vos have uncovered so much about his life.”