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PROF. H. V. VALLOIS, professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toulouse, has been appointed professor of prehistoric anthropology in the Institut de Paléontologie humaine of the University of Paris. Prof. Vallois, who has long been recognized as standing in the front rank of authorities in France on human palaeontology, has been in charge of the anthropological laboratory for practical studies of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris since 1937, and is senior editor of the periodical L'Anthropologie. He took up his duties at the Institut at the beginning of the current semester, and is delivering a course of lectures on the general principles of human palaeontology and the prehominids. A course of lectures on prehistoric ethnography is also being delivered concurrently by the Abbé Breuil. A new department has been formed in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes for the study of geology with special reference to the origin of man. The first director of the department will be P. Teilhard de Chardin, who during his prolonged residence in the Far East has made numerous and important contributions to the study of the palæontology and pre-history of China and south-eastern Asia. It will be remembered that the first discovery of palaeolithic implements in China was due to Teilbard de Chardin, while his studies of the fossil fauna of Choukoutien is the basis for the dating of Peking man. He contributes to the current issue of L'Anthropologie (48, 5-6; 1938) notes on the human palaeontology of southern Asia, summarizing the results of his observations in Burma, Malaya, Java and Indo-China, when accompanying Dr. Hellmut de Terra on his recent geological and archæological survey in the Far East, supplementary to his investigations in India (see NATURE, 143, 275; 1938).
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Archæological Studies in France. Nature 143, 510 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143510c0
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