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exaggerated unimportant details, and ignored the general value and 
utility of the book. To all this Dr. Wright has replied temperately and 
convincingly. 
The ethnologists of the Bureau at Washington have made destruc- 
tive criticisms of the evidence for glacial man contained in the book. 
Probably the most expert makers in the world of human imple- 
ments of the stone age are Messrs Holmes and Maguire of Washing- 
ton. They show convincingly that it is easier to make neolithic or 
pecked and polished stone implements, than to make fine chipped 
flints of paleolithic type. Hence they conclude that either the order 
of age should be reversed, or that paleoliths and neoliths are of con- 
Fic. 1; 
Fig. 1. Argillite implement found by Dr. C. C. Abbott, March, 1879 at K. K. 
Rowan’s farm, Trenton, N. J., in gravel 16 feet from surface. From G. F. Wright’s 
Man and the Glacial Period. 
temporary age, and that the absence of neolithic implements from 
some deposits is simply due to accident or to the soft material of which 
such implements were made. This conclusion, if correct, revolutionizes 
prehistoric archeology. These gentlemen think that it should be 
