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Mills' moral character, his education or business reputation, 

 diminish the danger of error. The specimen may not have been 

 found in place notwithstanding all possible verification, and it 

 may be a reject notwithstanding its resemblance to foreign types, 

 and Professor Wright may be wrong in urging his conclusions 

 upon the public, notwithstanding his painstaking efforts to 

 secure all possible affirmative testimony. 



It is nowhere stated that Mr. Mills actually picked the speci- 

 men out of the gravels ; it was probably loose when he dis- 



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Figs. I and 2. Sections of wall of gravel-pit showing redistribution of surface 

 objects by sliding masses. The dark figures represent objects of art. 



covered it, but even if he could say that it was fixed in the 

 gravel mass, the necessity of questioning the find would still exist. 

 All the authentication Professor Wright can possibly secure will 

 not enable him to determine whether Mr. Mills struck with his 

 walking stick a small mass of the gravel in place at a depth of 

 sixteen feet, or whether he was dealing with a mass which had 

 slid with its inclusions of modern relics from the surface to a 

 depth of sixteen feet, as indicated at C, Fig. 2. The object may 

 have been in place, but can we afford to decide momentous ques- 

 tions upon the evidence furnished bv a single specimen obtained 

 under the conditions existing in this case, and by a collector 

 who for months after the finding " was not aware of the import- 

 ance " of the discoverv? 



