modernize and strengthen their national scientific infrastructure. Ding Wenjiang was the Chinese representative, and described that the material should stay in Uppsala, while as many duplicate specimens as possible should be repatriated to China after study. Wiman sent a few of his students, namely Otto Zdansky, Birger Bohlin, Torsten J. Ringström and Erik Stensiö from Sweden, as well as non-Swedish scientists such as Max Schlosser and Arthur T. Hopwood. Collectively, between 1919 and 1923, they sent back to Uppsala 783 boxes of Chinese fossils. Some fossils of international interest were four teeth of Peking Man. Palaeontological Museum Back in Uppsala there were no single facilities that could hold the amount of material pouring in from China. The fossils were consequently stored in five facilities spread over the town. A detailed proposal and budget was put forward in June 1926 to the administration of Uppsala University, urging for the construction of a new museum building. Wiman claimed that the fossil collections were on a par with those of the foremost museums in Europe, and therefore rightly deserved a proper museum building in which to house them. By influence of his friend Lagrelius, who discussed the matter with Crown Prince Gustaf VI Adolf, a memorandum was sent to the Prime Minister. The proposal was approved by the government in 1929, and 791 000 SEK were allocated to the construction of Carl Wiman's palaeontological museum. Unfortunately, the assigned budget made Wiman reduce the scope of his project, but still he enthusiastically hailed it in the press, calling it a "temple to the fossils". The museum finished construction in 1931. Later life Wiman eventually retired from academic life one year after his museum's completion at age 65. During that time he oversaw the installation of the exhibits and the storing of all dispersed collections. Wiman would continue to work and supervise the running of the museum until a week before his death on 6 June 1944. Wiman's only female student, Elsa Warburg, the first female palaeontologist in Sweden, informally administered the institute in the interval immediately following Wiman’s death. References 1867 births 1944 deaths Swedish paleontologists Academic staff of Uppsala University