Scholar · Excavator
Forsyth Major
fl. 1890–1903
Scholar and excavator, active 1890–1903.
Life and work
- 1890Wrote a work on the pleistocene dwarf hippopotamus of Cyprus, listed in the index of L'Anthropologie 1890.
- 1902–1903Dr Forsyth Major, a zoologist, published on the pygmy hippopotamus of Cyprus, exhibited Cypriot fossil hippopotamus bones in 1902 and excavated two fossil dwarf elephants on the island, reported in 1903.
- 1903Zoologist who excavated two fossil dwarf elephants on Cyprus, as reported in this 1903 news item.
- UndatedExhibited specimens of Cypriot fossil pigmy hippopotamus bones at the Society meeting and identified them with Cuvier's petit Hippopotame fossile.
- UndatedPublished a paper on the pygmy hippopotamus from the Pliocene of Cyprus, in L'Anthropologie vol. XIV.
- UndatedExhibited and identified fossil hippopotamus remains from Cyprus caves at a Natural History meeting.
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- Published material of Dorothea Minola Alice Batepygmy hippopotamus bones from Cyprus l'Anthropologie 1903: Vol 141902
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Dorothea Minola Alice Batepigmy hippopotamus bones from Cyprus; pygmy hippopotamus bones from Cyprus; pygmy hippopotamus remains from Cyprus Dorothea Bate; L'Anthropologie (1903), p. 940; L'Anthropologie (1890)1902
Sources
- 1.l'Anthropologie 1903: Vol 14.
- 2.Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland 54.1903.
- 3.L'Anthropologie (1890).
- 4.The Athenæum (1828).
- 5.l'Anthropologie 1967: Contents.
- 6.The Athenaeum.
- 7.Dorothea Bate.
- 8.L'Anthropologie (1903).
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