Notes and Comments. 377 
ANOTHER VIEW. 
Mr. H. S. Toms, Curator of the Brighton Museum, said 
that while admiring the energy of the lecturer and recognising 
the enormous amount of work entailed, often lasting until 
the small hours of the morning, he, nevertheless, totally 
disagreed with Mr. Anderson’s conclusions, and said, em- 
phatically, that not one of the specimens handed around, nor 
those lying on the table, nor those in the large exhibition case 
behind the lecturer, shewed the smallest trace of organic struc- 
ture; they were simply lumps of flint of curious shapes, such 
as were found abundantly in the county; especially those 
showing a median fracture, which he, himself, had found. 
There were many such accidental forms in the Museum and 
some like Mr. Anderson’s so-called ‘bones.’ Often were 
brought to him flints, which resembled cats’ heads, birds’ 
heads, horses’ heads, and the like, and personally he considered 
the Museum should collect and exhibit such curious mimicry 
of living objects. On a further survey of the specimens 
exhibited he stated, still more emphatically, that all the 
specimens were accidental and amorphous and that Mr. 
Anderson was entirely wrong in his attempt to reconcile them 
with any kind of bones. 
A REPLY. 
The Lecturer, in replying, charged Mr. Toms with coming 
there with mind and motive fully prepared to smash what he 
did not understand and what he considered a misleading and 
erroneous theory and this in spite of wealth and material, 
which any paleontologist would recognise at a glance. He 
was surprised that Mr. Toms, after twenty years installation 
in the Museum, should not yet know his ‘bones.’ ‘ Did Mr. 
Toms, or anyone else in that room, imagine that he, Mr. Ander- 
son, would imperil his reputation, no mean one, as a paleon- 
tologist and geologist, by coming before them with an ill- 
digested, ignorant theory ! This was no theory but the plain 
fact of the existence of silicified bones, and he was prepared 
to defer to “the opinion of any scientific body which did know 
something.’ Or if the greatest minds in the geological world 
or the great palzontologists of the British Museum, or of any 
other State Museums abroad, said he was wrong, he was pre- 
pared to hide his diminished head and never more lay claim 
to being what the scientfic men of the old and new world 
considered him to be!’ They evidently have interesting 
meetings in the south! Anyway, Mr. Anderson evidently 
impressed the reporter, for we read that: ‘ Hearty applause 
greeted a well-balanced and erudite lecture, delivered entirely 
without notes, by a speaker evidently an expert in all geo- 
logical matters.’ All we can say is that if Mr. Anderson’s 
conclusions are correct, he has found, in flint, remains of 
1915 Dec. 1. 
