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fragments of bones"; so that, if this description is correct, a 

 complete Hippopotamus femur would seem rather out of place. 



The numerous rolled fragments of bone found by us in and 

 around the red conglomerate vary in size from the size of a 

 finger-tip to half the palm of the hand, and throughout our 

 search we found nothing like a complete bone. Before com- 

 mencing this article, however, I wrote to Dr. Noetling, mention- 

 ing this difficulty, and asking what was his explanation of it; 

 but, having received no answer, I can only conjecture that no 

 very satisfactory one is forthcoming. It would appear to be not 

 difficult to determine whether the rubbing down took place before 

 the bone was fossilized or after, but Dr. Noetling does not men- 

 tion that this test has been applied. Mr. LaTouche searched for 

 the specimen in the Geological Museum, as Dr. Noetling was 

 absent in Europe, but could not find it in the place where it 

 should have been, and, as the latter gentleman, at the time of 

 writing, is in Cashmir, there must be some further delay in 

 finding it. 



However, the bone at best is only useful in support of the 

 flints, and if these have a different origin it cannot support them, 

 but must remain as a solitary and inconclusive specimen. 



That some sort of man existed in Burma — or, at any rate, in 

 the Malay Peninsula — in Tertiary times is not only possible, but 

 probable ; but that the chipped flints and facetted bone are the 

 work of his hands is, I think, a conclusion that is not warranted 

 by the facts. The place where the flints were found would 

 appear to be a palaeolithic workshop, and as such is of great 

 interest ; but the vast difference between such a find and a dis- 

 covery of specimens of the work of pre-glacial man is too obvious 

 to require mention. 



The photograph for this article has been kindly taken for me 

 by the Rev. Charles Hodder, Town Chaplain, Mandalay. 



Since writing this article, I have heard that some of the flint 

 chips that were taken to England by Col. Nichols have, through 

 the kindness of Col. Bingham, been submitted to Dr. Blanford, 

 Prof. Bonney, and other expert authorities, and that they are 

 pronounced to be of undoubted human origin. — R. C.J. S. 



