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THE forthcoming retirement of the veteran anthropologist, M. Marcellin Boule, director of the Institut de Paleontologie humaine and professor of palaeontology, after fifty years' service in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, will be marked by the presentation to him of a medal by his friends and pupils as a token of admiration, gratitude and affection. M. Boule has long been recognized not merely as the leading authority in France on early man, but also as one of the very select few among anthropologists at large whose verdict on any matter under argument in prehistoric archaeology and human palaeontology comes as near finality as is possible in that ever-expanding field of science. Of his numerous contributions to the literature of his subject, “Les Hommes Fossiles” is as widely known as it is authoritative; it will always stand as a record of conclusions based upon profound knowledge and painstaking research. The arrangements for the proposed honour to this distinguished man of science have been in the hands of a committee of which the Abbe Breuil, P. Teilhard de Chardin, Prof. Verneau and other distinguished French anthropologists are members, and on which Great Britain is represented by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Prof. W. J. Sollas, Belgium by Prof. C. Fraipont, Holland by Dr. ]5. Dubois, and Switzerland by Prof. ]£. Pittard. A replica in bronze of the medal, which is the work of A. de Jaeger, will be presented to each subscriber to the fund, of which the secretaries are MM. J. Cottreau, J. Piveteau, H. Vallois and R. Vaufrey; treasurer, M. Georges Masson. The minimum amount of a contribution is 100 francs; and it should be addressed, 120 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris (vie).
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Presentation to M. Marcellin Boule. Nature 138, 196 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138196a0
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