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He spent a number of summers on expeditions in Africa searching for remains of prehistoric man. His work there after 1947 centered on the prehistoric Men-Apes of the
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offered him a grant to return to China, but as this did not include visas for his family he declined and instead took up a two-year role lecturing in geology at the
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Recent Observations on the Loess of North China (1935)
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