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to imply that the time for propagating the Pleistocene or the 

 non-Pleistocene age of man in Florida has not yet come. 



But let us pass lightly by this diversive stage and consider 

 whether a rejuvenated effort of the co-operative order may not 

 be made the most worthy successor of the already fruitful second 

 stage. 



STAGE IV. FURTHER EFFORTS AT RECONCILIATION AND REVISION 



What is the most laudable line of future effort in the light of 

 the disclosures of the preceding conferences ? Is it not obviously 

 a concerted effort to evaluate the criteria brought into service, 

 to revise them if found necessary, and to find in an analysis of 

 the case the means of reconciliation of the divergent views ? Cer- 

 tainly the true end of endeavor is a concurrent interpretation. 

 To this end should not each advocate stand ready to reshape his 

 view so that it shall be reconcilable, so far as possible, with the 

 evidences that seem to favor some opposing view? We may be 

 sure that Dame Nature has proceeded rationally in the operations 

 at Vero, as everywhere else, and that there really is complete 

 harmony and consistency in the evidences presented. 



We beg to make a few observations by way of suggesting fur- 

 ther studies in the interest of such revision and reconciliation, but 

 let it be clearly understood that these are but suggestions to deploy 

 the case for additional investigation; they are not proposed 

 solutions. 



a) Suggestions relative to the creek deposits tJiemselves. — ^Present 

 processes are fairly clear and quite demonstrable. Recent pro- 

 cesses should naturally be next most clear and most demonstrable. 

 May it not be well then to change the order of inquiry by starting 

 where the evidence is best and try to determine first what amount 

 of aggradational work may reasonably be assigned Van Valken- 

 burg's Creek during the Recent Period ? The probable minimum 

 length of this, according to the tentative scale given on a previous 

 page, is two hundred centuries. By analyzing its formative pro- 

 cesses, it should be possible to reach some approximate notion 

 of the nature of the recent work of Van Valkenburg's Creek and 

 perhaps of its time-relations. The results projected backward 



