[BOWMAN] DISCREPANCY IN TRUSTWORTHY RECORDS 129 
VI. The Treatment of Discrepancy: 
(a) Where the Circumstances of a Discrepancy between 
essentially trustworthy Records are known...... 168 
(b) Where the Discrepancy lies between Records of 
essentially unequal Trustworthiness and the 
attendant Circumstances are unknown.......... 169 
(c) Where the Discrepancy lies between Records essen- 
tially trustworthy and the attendant Circumstan- 
ces are unknown: 
i.—The scientific Requirement is not Har-- 
monization, but Silence concerning the 
Point in Contradiction........ 170 
ii. —Defect is not to be pute +0 Fe ne 
cord, except upon Proof that the Dis- 
crepancy could not conceivably have 
arisen legitimately from the Categories... 171 
ili—The Agreement of two or more Records in 
Contradiction of another Record does not 
justify the Conclusion that the conflict- 
ing Statement of the single Record is 
erroneous.. as a 173 
iv.—If the diserepant teens le in 
Part, Silence is required of the Historian 
only from the Point where the Contradic- 
bonactuallybesins Le Woe ee 173 
APPENDICES. | 
Ae An Linclassimed: Gase au (Cane 27)! aot). ARLON En tee eae 175 
B. Thumb Print Identification. (Extracts from the World 
Wide, Montreal, February 18 and 25, 1911).:........... 176 
C. Statistical Tabulation of the Experimental Test in the 26 
Rese ob Diserepane ys «fais i GAL EN BEEN OUT idan ie ae 140 
Indes to jnses) of Discrépaneyt it iM. 200 AT Aa 178 
