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this, as well as from the others, to some friends who were sceptical, 

 but they are now quite of my opinion." 



(No. 5.) 

 My dear Sir, 



Woiiham, Reigate, 

 Sept. 24, 1847. 



Pray accept my best thanks for your kindness 

 in enabling me, so satisfactorily, to establish the strange traditions 

 respecting these relics of humanity. My kind friend and neighbour, 

 Sir Benjamin, has interested himself in the progress of the inquiry, 

 and I hope to inform him, on his return to-morrow, of this fresh dis- 

 covery. I hope that you will make such use of the facts as you may 

 desire, and if you should wish for any further information, I shall be 

 most happy to supply it. I think, however, that I stated the circum- 

 stances and tradition in each of the three cases, as I submitted them 

 to your discriminating skill. Mr. Neville writes to me, that Mr. 

 Towneley, the rector of Hadstock, had just obtained a scientific 

 opinion in regard to the skin from that church, fully in accordance 

 with your decision. I have enclosed the- specimen from Hadstock — 

 as you have been pleased to regard these relics as of sufficient 

 interest to merit a place in the precious collection under your care. 

 I wish the samples had been less diminutive; possibly you might 

 have been able to give us an opinion as to the skin having been sub- 

 mitted to any preservative process. Regretting that they are so 

 trifling in dimensions, I am gratified to be able to add to my sincere 

 thanks any token both of my esteem for your kindness, and of 

 my satisfaction at this alliance and cooperation betwixt Science and 

 Archaeology. 



I remain, dear Sir, yours very truly, 



Albert Way. 



For the information of those who may be called upon to undertake 

 similar investigations, I will here state the mode of manipulating 

 which was adopted in order to obtain the hairs from the three speci- 

 mens of skin above described. The upper surface of each specimen 



