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Evans, F.R.S., who, as everybody knows, exercises with regard to 

 such novelties a scientific caution that some might call extreme, and 

 who has sometimes called himself the St. Thomas of anthropologists, 

 writes : — " No. 4 may or may not be artificial, and the same may be 

 said of no. 3, with even more probability of its being made by man."' 

 Bearing past history in mind, and the reception which has been 

 accorded to these specimens, the unquestionable evidences they 

 present of being artificially worked, the unmistakable positions from 

 which they were obtained, and the conditions under which some 

 of them were found in the matrix, are we not justified in admitting the 

 existence of man in Britain in the Forest Bed period ? 



W. J. Lewis Abbott. 

 Sevenoaks, Kent. 



