Conan Doyle/A Request for Assistance

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

Shalom, good morning, Channukah greetings eight days later.
       While energetically preparing his The Lost World, ACD weaved together portraits: Professor Challenger from Edinburgh teacher, Professor Summerlee was patterned after A.S. Woodward, John Roxton from Roger Casement (whose heroic struggles against homophobic British intelligence services [a combination of oxymorons here, I'm afraid] are documented by Angus Mitchell et al. in recent years; Mr Casement, a member of the IRA, was hung for "treason" on the basis of forged "black" diaries, purporting to show he was, like Oscar Wilde, a "pervert"), and E.D. Malone from E.D. Morel. Mr Morel's Congo Reform Association (which included both Mr Casement, ACD, Mark Twain et al.) exposed the genocide and slave labour of Leopold of Belgium in the Congo. Alas: it did not stop German museums from using slave labour to excavate dinosaur skeletons, and ACD positioned his plateau of dinosaurs in South America. Unfortunately, the 1912 book version ACD!
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ublished was heavily truncated: the magnificent, episodic manuscript (far richer than one can imagine), now at the New York Public Library, has yet to be published as ACD had so hoped, its dinosaurs and hominid characters in greater detail.
       The Victorian alliances between paleontologists and imperialist expansions (Richard Owen did not, after all, receive his specimens of moas etc. from school projects, and von Huene/Janensch were exploring in areas conquered) should be more thoroughly documented. 
       As part of my research for my book-in-progress, I am most interested in learning  if anyone knows if Robert Wuliger is alive in the U.K. In 1952, he submitted a Ph.D. dissertation at the London School of Economics, 'The idea of economic imperialism with special reference to the life and work of E.D. Morel' (a year later, he published a four page essay in the journal American Literature on Mark Twain's relationship with Mr Morel, then disappeared).