CORRESPONDENCE 



To the Editor of " Science Progress " 



A CORRECTION ! 



From J. Reid Moir 



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In reference to your reviewer's cogent remarks in the July 

 issue of Science Progress (p. 63) regarding the elephant-bone 

 described in my paper " On some Human and Animal Bones, 

 Flint Implements, etc., discovered in two Ancient Occupation 

 Levels in a small Valley near Ipswich," I know of no reason 

 for thinking that this " apparently anachronistic tibia is of 

 the nature of a derived fossil." The specimen was found in 

 my presence impacted in the lower floor, associated with the 

 Upper Monsterian flint implements and other relics described 

 by me. The bone presents a precisely similar appearance to 

 many of the specimens from this occupation-level, and, like 

 these, it exhibits no signs of rolling or abrasion by any agent of 

 transport. I have no doubt but that the bone is of the same 

 age as all the other relics from the lower floor. In fact, this 

 appears to me to be what is generally known as a " certainty." 



J. Reid Moir. 

 Ipswich, August 8, 1918. 



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