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man and the fossil European apes are preserved. Acting at the same 

 time as Director of the American School in France for Prehistoric 

 Studies, Dr. Hrdlicka was accompanied on his trip by a number of 

 graduate American students to whom the sites and specimens were 

 demonstrated. 



One of the principal objects of the trip was the securing of accurate 

 measurements of the teeth, particularly the lower molars, of the larger 

 fossil apes and early man by one observer, a strictly defined method, 

 and accurate instruments ; while a second important object was the 

 taking of photographs of the various sites of early man of which 

 good photographic views were not yet available. 



The work began with a re-examination of the Piltdown jaw and 

 skulls which are in the care of Professor Smith Woodward in the 

 British Museum of Natural History, London.' The Rhodesian, 

 Boskop, Gibraltar and other early remains in London were also seen 

 once more, and then a day was spent in company with Professor 

 Smith Woodward in a visit to the interesting site where the Piltdown 

 remains were uncovered and where further search was to be resumed 

 during this summer. The results, so far as the Piltdown remains are 

 concerned, were merely to accentuate the conviction that the lower 

 jaw and the skulls do not belong together. 



The next visit was to the important Ipswich Museum and to the 

 archeological sites in the vicinity, including that of Foxhall, under the 

 guidance of Mr. Guy Maynard, the Curator of the Mvtseum. A trip 

 to Cromer, kindly arranged by Mr. J. Reid ]\Ioir, was undertaken on 

 the following day, to examine the famous " Cromer forest beds." 

 Here Mr. Savin showed the party his invaluable paleontological col- 

 lections from the Cromer forest beds, and under the guidance of 

 Professor Barnes of Oxford the clififs bearing worked stones were 

 examined, together with the beach accumulations containing many 

 chipped flints, and also a large private collection of what are sup- 

 posed to be Tertiary implements. It is in the sites about Ipswich, 

 particularly at Foxhall and also on the beach at Cromer, that worked 

 stones of Tertiary man are believed to have been recovered ; but after 

 seeing conditions and noting the divergent views of men who are 

 giving close attention to this subject it was felt that a definite answer 

 to this weighty question is not as yet possible. 



^ Grateful acknowledgments for aid rendered on this trip are due to all those 

 mentioned in this report. Their assistance in giving first hand reviews of the 

 knowledge concerning individual specimens and sites, with personal conduct 

 in many instances to the latter, was of the greatest value. 



