User talk:Frank Gries

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I've changed the Olduvai Gorge article per your talk request. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. You could have made the change and are welcome to "fix" any errors you find and add content to articles. Jump right in and have fun :) Vsmith (talk) 11:50, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talk: Olduvai Gorge edit (2012)

Hello, Frank Gries. I agree with you about Kattwinkel's profession being primarily as a medical doctor, and believe you are correct in stating that he was researching sleeping sickness when he went to ~~Kenya~~Tanzania. However, one of your cited sources (U of Ind. Press) was cited to support the statement that he was in ~~Kenya~~Tanzania to collect butterflies (that may have been Louis Leaky's impression, though what Tsetse fly collector wouldn't use the net for anything else of interest?). It's cited as being on p. 116 of the book. I am still going to revert the purpose to medical research, but, as I don't have those books, I cannot cite a page number. Do you have any sources I can use to "best" this citation:

ref>Maier, Gerhard, African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions, Indiana University Press, 2003,  p. 116 ISBN 978-0253342140</ref>

Many thanks for whatever help you can provide here.--Quisqualis (talk) 21:14, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Prof Kattwinkel sleeping sickness

Dear Quisqualis,

unfortunately, my sources are in German language:

1. Glowatzki, Georg: Kattwinkel, Wilhelm. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, p. 345-346

2. Glowatzki, Georg: Wilhelm Kattwinkel, der Entdecker der Oldoway-Schlucht. In: Homo - Zeitschrift für die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen. Band 30, 1979, p. 124–125

The first reference is available online, but I was not able to create a link here.

Georg Glowatzki was the director of the Bavarian State Archive on Anthropology in Munich from 1969 to 1977.

Regards Frank Gries (talk) 21:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)Frank Gries[reply]

That is no problem, provided: 1.)You can read German and 2.)You can find any mention of his studying sleeping sickness in Africa. You may add the reference to the article, or, if you prefer, tell me the book information and page number so I can add it. I have looked for butterflies and African sleeping sickness in Glowatzki's short encyclopedia entry on Kattwinkel. Neither one is mentioned there. Thanks.--Quisqualis (talk) 00:33, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Quisqualis, reference should be: 1. Glowatzki, Georg: Kattwinkel, Wilhelm. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, I made a mistake in the first quotation, pages are 331-332. On page 332 to research sleeping sickness (German: Schlafkrankheit) is stated as purpose for his journey to Africa 1910-1911. Regards Frank Gries (talk) 13:36, 22 January 2019 (UTC)Frank Gries[reply]