| Description | O'Brien is a second-class brain, but a good leader, his work careful and his energy unbounded. He does not think over his plans long enough and therefore does not make the best of time and opportunities. He is worth encouraging and as long as he has a scientist to keep him in check he is useful, especially for his interest in out-of-the-way places. They have been to Kaiso and it is not an archaeologist's paradise as Wayland had led them to believe, land mammals are uncommon. He does not agree with Wayland's interpretation of succession there but he is going to Entebbe next week to discuss it with him. The Kafu valley produced a heap of Kafuan material in mint condition, probably a factory site, and the most convincing pebble-tool collection ever produced. The country is discouraging to a geologist, with much grass and few exposures even in hilly country. He does not know how Wayland has enough evidence to justify his scheme. Uganda alone would not be enough to establish a Pleistocene chronology and they may go to Kenya to link with evidence there. He proposes some collecting in the Rift to differentiate between Kamasian and Gamblian on mineralogical evidence - it may work there as well as Oldoway and he is suspicious of Leakey's Aurignacian in the later Kamasian deposits. He thinks that his most useful function in Uganda will be to clear Wayland's mind, since he has been working for years without informed criticism from anyone with knowledge of Quaternary geology. He has gone much too far, hence his clash with O'Brien, who finds that archaeological evidence will not fit Wayland's scheme. |