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seum). At another place near Caddington, he had found associated 

 with drift blades and in place a horde of two hundred of the bead-like 

 fossils (Coeinopora globularis), with holes artificially enlarged, though 

 at none of the sites were drawings on bone, bone needles or lance 

 heads discovered. One of the most interesting features of the work at 

 Caddington consists in what Mr. Smith calls " replacement," a process 

 previously invented by Mr. F. G. Spurrell, and never before, to my 

 knowledge, applied to drift specimens found in situ. 



The two thousand two hundred and fifty-nine flakes unearthed at 

 Caddington were grouped according to color on small trays easily 

 shifted from table to table, and a laborious experimental study of them, 

 lasting for three years, demonstrated the interesting fact that many 

 sets of them fitted together, sometimes reconstructing the original 

 nodule on which the blade maker had worked, sometimes hedging 

 about hollows which, on pouring in plaster of Paris, reproduced the 

 form of the resultant and missing blade. 



" I examined and re-examined the stones," says Mr. Smith, " almost 

 daily. I looked at them as a relief from other work and at times when 

 I was tired. 



" Not only did I keep my selected stones on the tables for this length 

 of time, but I kept a vast number of blocks, rude pieces and flakes, on 

 certain undisturbed grassy places in the briek-fields for the same three 

 years. Whilst working upon my tables, I sometimes suddenly re- 

 membered one or more like examples on the grass, and at an early 

 opportunity, fetched them from Caddington. In making up some of 

 the blocks of conjoined flakes, it often happened that one or more 



were never found, but in other instances, after the lapse of months, or 

 even more than a year, a missing piece would come to light on the 

 paleolithic floor. It is certain that I have not replaced all the flakes 

 in my collection that are capable of replacement— one reason for this 

 is that many flakes are very different in color and markings on one 

 side from what they are on the other, and it is difficult to remember 

 the markings on both sides. Another reason is that the time at my 

 disposal has not been unlimited." 



All this demonstrates in a manner, as conclusive as it is novel, that 

 the Caddington site is an undisturbed workshop, while the analyses of 

 Mr. Smith and the facts described in his work— Man, the Primaeval 

 Savage— take precedence over all recent evidence upon the subject, 

 and throw a new light upon the more ancient subdivision of the Stone 

 Age in Europe. 



