Willoughby Verner
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Colonel William Willoughby Cole Verner was a British soldier, writer, ornithologist, and inventor of a type of compass. He was briefly a Professor of Topography at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
An Elliot Bros London First World War British Army military sketching board says "Major Verners Patent". It is 24 cm high and 17.5 cm wide.
Verner's Pattern no VIII by a Swiss Clockmaker, Ed Koehn, dated 1916
Verner climbing down to a bird's nest on a cliff ledge
Gibraltar 1
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Gibraltar 1 is the name given to a Neanderthal skull, also known as the Gibraltar Skull, which was discovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar. The skull was presented to the Gibraltar Scientific Societ
Willoughby Verner
…was in 1919 and they were convinced that this was another home to early man like the earlier finds at Cuerva de la Pieta and at Forbes' Quarry Cave, Gibraltar 1 had been found over fifty years earlier. Their confidence was confirmed when Gibraltar 2 was found nearby in the early 1920s by Dorothy Garrod who had…
Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry
Front view of the skull in the Natural History Museum, London
Side view of the Skull