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to Professor Henry W. Haynes, of Boston, requesting his 

 opinion on the subject. His reply I will, with his consent, 

 reproduce.* 



Boston, January 23, 1889. 



Dear Professor Wright : You ask for my opinion in 

 regard to the artificial character of the quartz fragments dis- 

 covered by Miss Babbitt, at Little Falls, Minn., as well as of 

 the argillite objects discovered by Dr. Abbott, at Trenton, 

 N. J., and those still more recently obtained by Dr. Metz and 

 Mr. Cresson. In replying to your inquiry I must premise by 

 stating that, although 1 have had abundant opportunity of 

 studying all these different objects, I have only visited one of 

 the localities where they were found — that is Trenton, N. J. — 

 where, as you know, I was accompanied by yourself, Professor 

 Boyd Dawkins, and the late Professor Henry Carvill Lewis, in 

 my examination of the region ; but I had previously visited 

 many localities in Europe, where palaeolithic implements have 

 been discovered ; and I have myself found many! Several 

 years of study in that country have made me familiar with 

 the cleavage of flint, and the method of fabricating rudely 

 chipped implements. Subsequently, in this country, for a 

 still longer period, I have given much attention to the tools 

 and weapons of the Indians, and the different materials of 



* I would remark that Professor Haynes's private collection of palaeoliths is 

 one of the largest in this country, and abounds in representatives from every 

 locality where they have been found. The following is a list of his publications 

 upon the subject : Silex Acbeuleeus de l'Egypte, " Bull, de la Soc. d'Anthrop. 

 de Paris," 3d ser., vol. i, p. 339 ; " The Fossil Man," " Popular Science Monthly," 

 July, 1880, p. 350; "The Egyptian Stone Age," "Nation," January 27, 1881 ; 

 " Discovery of Palaeolithic Implements in Egypt," " Memoirs of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences," vol. x, p. 357 ; " The Argillite Implements," etc. 

 "Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History," vol. xxi, p. 132; "The 

 Palaeolithic Man," " American Antiquarian," vol. vi, p. 137 ; " The Stone Age in 

 Prehistoric Archaeology," " Science," vol. iv, pp. 469, 522 ; " Man in the Stone 

 Age," " Science," vol. v, p. 43 ; " The Bow and Arrow unknown to Palaeolithic 

 Man," " Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History," vol. xxiii, p. 

 269; "Palaeolithic Man in London and its Neighborhood," "Science," vol. ix, 

 p. 221; "Opinion on Palaeolithics," "American Antiquarian," vol. x, p. 125; 

 " The Prehistoric Archaeology of North America " ; " Narrative and Critical 

 History of America." vol. i. pp. 329-368. 



