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London: Allen Lane, Date: 1999. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. No notable flaws, clean throughout. Newspaper clipping review laid-in. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. 1999. Allen Lane ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [GB]

London: Allen Lane, Date: 1999. ix, 224pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket.Professor JW Heslop Harrison aroused suspicion of scientific fraud in the 1940s after numerous 'discoveries' of new plant species on Rum Island in the Hebrides. A young Cambridge man infiltrated one of the professor's expeditions and the report was damning, accusing the professor of sytematic and persistent faking of his results. The report was buried in a Cambridge library for nearly fifty years and the professor continued his career. The author unearthed the report and used it as a starting point in unravelling a story that has been called 'the Piltdown Man of botany'. He uses the Rum Island affair to explore the roots of scientific fraud in general and the pressures that can drive an emineent scientist to believe that faking the data is sometimes justified.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 1999. Allen Lane ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [AU]

ISBN10: 0713992778, ISBN13: 9780713992779, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover First Edition Cutting of TLS review loosely inserted. A non-fictional 'whodunnit' about some very strange plant records from the Hebrides made by a Professor of Botany from Newcastle who turned out to have a very large chip on his shoulder. A mint copy of the first edition's first printing, with mint dust jacket. Weight: 1 Language: English
[Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

London: Allen Lane, Date: 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title to spine, 224 pages including black and white photographic plates, appendix, notes, index. Sabbah uses the episode of fake reports of rare plants on the the Hebridian Isle of Rum in the 1940's as a starting point for a more general exploration of scientific fraud. A lovely copy - fine in all respects. 1999. Allen Lane ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [AU]

Penguin, Date: 1999. ix, 223, 11 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded; price-clipped).. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780713992779] 1999. Penguin ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [GB]

Penguin, Date: 1999. ix, 223, 11 b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w.. How Botany's "Piltdown Man" was unmasked. The story of Prof. Heslop-Harrison, a distinguished academic, who strengthened the evidence for his theory of ice-age plant survival by "planting" flora in places where it had never been found before, and then "discovering" it. John Raven believed that he had caught him red-handed on the Isle of Rum in the summer of 1948. The scientific community closed ranks and Heslop-Harrison continued to dominate British botany for the next decade.. [9780713992779] 1999. Penguin ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [GB]

London: Allen Lane - Penguin Press, Date: 1999. Set in Postscript Monotype Sabon. Cover illustration: Andrew Bridge. Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison aroused suspicion of scientific fraud in the 1940s after numerous 'discoveries' of new plant species on Rum Island in the Hebrides. A young Cambridge man infiltrated one of the professor's expeditions and the report was damning, accusing the professor of sytematic and persistent faking of his results. The report was buried in a Cambridge library for nearly fifty years and the professor continued his career. The author unearthed the report and used it as a starting point in unravelling a story that has been called 'the Piltdown Man of botany'. He uses the Rum Island affair to explore the roots of scientific fraud in general and the pressures that can drive an emineent scientist to believe that faking the data is sometimes justified. Contents: 1). 'A curious episode'. 2). Fields of inquiry. 3). The professor and the don. 4). Rumours. 5). The plan. 6). The forbidden island. 7). 'Quoth the raven...' 8). 'Is such a thing done?' 9). The aftermath. 10). Seeds of doubt. 11). 'A total muddlehead'. 12). The matter subsides. 13). A turn-up for the book. Epilogue: Two minor mysteries. With appendix, notes and index. 11 black and white photographic plates. IX + 223 + (1) pag.. 1st edition. Hard bound with dustjacket. Fine copy.. 22cmx14,5cm. 1999. Allen Lane - Penguin Press ISBN ...

ISBN10: 0713992778, ISBN13: 9780713992779, [publisher: London, Allen Lane.] Hardcover 22 cm/8,7". IX, 223 S, [8] Schwarzweißtafeln. Original Pappband (Hardcover), Fadenheftung. Tadelloses Exemplar.Neuwertig. Sprache: Englisch.
[Adendorf, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0713992778, ISBN13: 9780713992779, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover First Edition A non-fictional 'whodunnit' about some very strange plant records from the Hebrides made by a Professor of Botany from Newcastle who turned out to have a very large chip on his shoulder. The author clearly identifies more with the rarified world of Cambridge which the Inspector Dalgleish character, Professor John Raven, inhabited, than with the miner's son, John Heslop-Harrison, whose "clunky and contrived style" contrasted with the "elegant and sure-footed prose" of his nemesis. Should be read in conjunction with "John Raven by his friends" (privately published, 1981). Includes two newspaper reviews of the book, loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English
[Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

Allen Lane, Date: 1999. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. A non-fictional 'whodunnit' about some very strange plant records from the Hebrides made by a Professor of Botany from Newcastle who turned out to have a very large chip on his shoulder. The author clearly identifies more with the rarified world of Cambridge which the Inspector Dalgleish character, Professor John Raven, inhabited, than with the miner's son, John Heslop-Harrison, whose "clunky and contrived style" contrasted with the "elegant and sure-footed prose" of his nemesis. Should be read in conjunction with "John Raven by his friends" (privately published, 1981). A mint copy of the first edition's first printing, with mint dust jacket. 1999. Allen Lane ISBN 0713992778 9780713992779 [GB]