Sabbagh, K. — A Rum Affair
Penguin ix, 223, 11 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded; price-clipped).. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780713992779]
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