Everything written about the baboon, annotated

Anyone starting research on baboons, whether in a laboratory, in primatology or in the wider biological sciences, first needs to know what has already been written. The Southwest Foundation for Research and Education in San Antonio, Texas, had that groundwork done by the Biological Sciences Communication Project at George Washington University, whose compilers were Elizabeth Tuffy, Jean Boulware and Ernest Zierling.

The result is an annotated bibliography: a list of writings on the baboon, each with a note. With added selections it reaches back as far as 1658 and runs up to its own day, mixing older historical and scientific sources with modern zoological research. This is Part One, dated 5 November 1963; the next year the project grew into a much larger compilation, which makes this first installment a record of how primate researchers organised their information at mid-century.

This copy is Part One only, typewritten and stapled into oversize pale paper covers, which are tanned, foxed and scuffed at the edges. Open Library gives about 157 pages; the photographed pages run in sequence, but it has not been collated.