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to illness, the collections were demonstrated to the partv hv his two 

 able assistants. 



The next visit was to the two museums at Brussels which contain 

 valuable collections relating" to early man, namely, the National 

 Museum and the Cinquantenaire. Both these very profitable visits 

 were made under the guidance and with all possible assistance of 

 Professor A. Rutot, who also arranged an excursion to the but Httle- 



FiG. 58. — 'Gravel beds yielding ancient paleolithic stone implements in the 

 Low Somme Terrace at Montier, subnrb of Amiens. Most of the stones 

 showing work of man are found in the very lowest layers of the gravel, 

 as seen in the pit at the right. (Photograph by A. H., July, 1923.) 



known cave of Spy and to the equally little-known paleolithic caves of 

 the Lesse Valley. 



The next stopping point was Liege, for the re-examination of the 

 Spy skeletons. In company with Professor Charles Fraipont, 

 Dr. Hrdlicka visited the house of Professor INIaxime Lohest where 

 the precious specimens had been hidden during the war and where thev 

 are temporarily preserved to-day. A visit was also paid with Profes- 

 sor Fraipont to the rich prehistoric collections of M. Hamal-Xandein 

 and a participation in the excavations of an earlv Neolithic site was ar- 



