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THE fossil remains of mammals found in the Middle Pleistocene freshwater deposits at Oldoway in Tanganyika Territory are interesting because they include several survivors from the Pliocene period, mingled with a typical modern African fauna. Primitive elephants, such as Dinotherium and Mastodon, and three-toed horses, which became extinct in Europe before the Pleistocene period, lived in east Africa until towards the end of this period, and were associated with numerous mammals which are only varieties of those still existing on the same continent. We therefore welcome another instalment of Dr. H. Reek's valuable volume on the collection of these fossil mammals which he made in 1913, and look forward to the early publication of a similar report on the second collection made in 1931 by Dr. Leakey's expedition, in which Dr. Reck also took part.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Oldoway-Expedition 1913
Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. H. Reck. Neue Folge Heft 4. Pp. 142 + 8 plates. (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1937.) 34 gold marks.
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W., A. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Oldoway-Expedition 1913. Nature 140, 6 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140006a0
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