Editing Louis Leakey (section)

===Scandal===
Following their marriage in 1928, Louis and Frida lived in [[Foxton, Cambridgeshire|Foxton]] near Cambridge. In November 1932, Frida used an inheritance to purchase a large brick house in [[Girton, Cambridgeshire|Girton]], which the family named "The Close".

The following year, Frida was pregnant, suffered from<!-- !  check for tone !--> [[morning sickness]] most of the time, and was unable to work on the illustrations for Louis's second book, ''Adam's Ancestors.'' At a dinner party given in his honor, after a lecture of his at the [[Royal Anthropological Institute]], [[Gertrude Caton-Thompson]] introduced her own illustrator, the twenty-year-old [[Mary Leakey|Mary Nicol]]. Louis convinced Mary to take on the illustration of his book, and a few months later companionship turned into an affair.<ref name=morell/> Frida gave birth to [[Colin Leakey|Colin]] in December 1933, and the next month Louis left her and his newborn son.<ref name=frida/> She would not sue for divorce until 1936.<ref name=morell>This account is based on Morell, Chapter 4, "Louis and Mary".</ref>

A panel at Cambridge investigated his morals. Grants dried up, but his mother raised enough money for another expedition to Olduvai, Kanam, and Kanjera, the latter two on the [[Winam Gulf]].<ref>The guest list is Peter Bell (zoologist), Sam White (surveyor), Peter Kent (geologist), Heselon Mukiri, Thairu Irumbi, Ndekei.</ref> His previous work there was questioned by [[Percy George Hamnall Boswell|P. G. H. Boswell]],<ref>Head of the Department of Geology at the [[Imperial College of Science]], London.</ref> whom he invited to verify the sites for himself. Arriving at Kanam and Kanjera in 1935, they found that the iron markers Louis had used to mark the sites had been removed by the [[Luo (family of ethnic groups)|Luo]] tribe for use as harpoons and the sites could not now be located. To make matters worse, all the photos Louis took were ruined by a light leak in the camera. After an irritating and fruitless two-month search, Boswell left for England, promising, as Louis understood it, not to publish a word until Louis returned.

Boswell immediately set out to publish as many words as he was able, beginning with a letter in ''Nature'' dated 9 March 1935, destroying Reck's and Louis's dates of the fossils and questioning Louis's competence. Despite the searches for the iron markers, Boswell averred that "the earlier expedition (of 1931–32) neither marked the localities on the ground nor recorded the sites on a map."<ref>{{cite journal | last = Boswell | first =P. G. H. | title = Human Remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya Colony | journal = Nature | volume = 135 | issue = 3410 | pages = 371 | date = 1935-03-09 | language = en | doi = 10.1038/135371a0 | bibcode = 1935Natur.135..371B | s2cid = 4079483 | doi-access = free }}</ref> In a field report of March 1935, Louis accused Boswell of reneging on his word, but Boswell asserted he had made no such promise, and now having public opinion on his side, warned Louis to withdraw the claim. Louis was not only forced to retract the accusation in his final field report in June 1935 but also to recant his support of Reck. Louis was through at Cambridge. Even his mentors turned on him.<ref>This account is based on Morell, Chapter 5, "Disaster at Kanam", supplemented with detail from Louis' account in ''By the Evidence'', Chapter 2. Olduvai Man languished through World War II in a Berlin museum and then partially disappeared, but preservative applied to the bones took away any hope of an accurate C-14 date; however, neither can any evidence of intrusion be located. Kanjera Man is ancient, possibly [[Homo habilis]]; Homo kanamensis is an intrusion.</ref>