Abstract
DR. PFIZENMEYER here gives an account of two expeditions, of which he was a member, one in 1901–2 and one in 1908, that were sent to Siberia by the Russian Academy of Sciences to excavate the carcasses of mammoths, of which the discovery in a frozen state had been reported. Of these expeditions the first recovered the Bereskova specimen, the most complete hitherto known, and the second the Sanga-Yurakh mammoth, which determined previously uncertain details in the characters of the trunk and tail. The author reviews the history of discoveries of the mammoth since the first recorded report in 1698 down to his own expeditions.
Siberian Man and Mammoth
By E. W. Pfizenmeyer. Translated from the German by Muriel D. Simpson, Pp. xii + 256 + 24 plates. (London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Travel. Nature 144, 198 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144198d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144198d0