Biography
Lawrence Herbert Wells, English-born South African anatomist, anthropologist and archaeologist (Handsworth, West Midlands, Birmingham 22 April 1908 – Durban 23 April 1980)
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suppression of spinous process of eleventh thoracic vertebra (1969)
Antelopes in the Pleistocene of Southern Africa. Zool. Afr. 1:115-20, 1965
A large extinct antelope skull from the “Younger Gravels” at Sydney on Vaal. S. Afr. J. Sci. 60:88-91, 1964
The end of an old song: the age of the Galley Hill skeleton. S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 18:183-4, 1963
Pleistocene faunas and the distribution of mammals in Southern Africa. Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. 2:37-40, 1962
A reconsiderations of some mandibular profiles. S. Afr. J. Sci. 54:55-8, 1958
With H.B.S. Cooke. Fossil Bovidae from the Lineworks Quarry, Makapansgat, Potgietersrust. Pal. Africana 4:1-55, 1957
Speculations on the palaeogeographic distribution of antelopes. S. Afr. J. Sci. 53:423-34, 1957
With H.B.S. Cooke. Fossil remains from Chelmer, near Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia: a further note. S. Afr. J. Sci. 52:49, 1955
Physical measurements of a Hottentot bushman hybrid. S. Afr. J. Sci. 49(9):283-4, 1953
Physical measurements of Northern Bushmen. Man 52:75-98, 1952
A large fossil Klipspringer from Potgietersrust. S. Afr. J. Sci. 47:167-8, 1951
With H.B.S. Cooke. The power collection of mammalian remains from the Vaal River deposits at Pniel. S. Afr. J. Sci. 42:224-35, 1946
With H.B.S. Cooke & B.D. Malan. The associated fauna and culture of the Vlakkraal Thermal Springs, O.F.S. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 29:203-33, 1942
The Bayville “Australoid” skeleton. S. Afr. J. Sci. 38:310-8, 1942
A fossil horse from Koffiefontein, O.F.S. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 28:301-6, 1941
The endocranial cast in recent and fossil hyraces (Procaviidae). S. Afr. J. Sci. 36:365-73, 1939
The status of Bushman as revealed by a study of endocranial casts. South Afr. J. Science 34:365-98, 1938
Ceramics in Southern Africa. Anais Fac. Cien. Porto 20(1):22-108, 1935
A fossilized human femur from East London, C.P. S. Afr. J. Sci. 32:596-00, 1935
A report on human skeletal remains from East London, C.P. S. Afr. J. Sci. 31:547-68, 1934
The foot of the South African native. Amer. J. Phys. Anthr. 15:185-289, 1931
Fossil Bushmen from the Zuurberg. S. Afr. J. Sci. 26:806-34, 1929
HONORS
Wellsiana Vrba 1987 (Fossil Mammalia)