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[Wright. 
am therefore prepared to accept without further question the gen- 
uineness of the image, and shall look for further confirmation as 
time elapses. 
Note. — Since the meeting of the society a letter has been re- 
ceived from the engineer, H. B. Grumbley (the only other person 
from whom information could be obtained), who says, “ I was pres- 
ent at the finding of the image. Circumstances were such that 
there could have been no mistake. I don’t think there was an} 1 - 
chance for the helper to have placed it in the sand, nor do I think 
he was capable of so doing.” 
President Putnam spoke of the evidences of the age of the image 
as shown by the deposit of oxide of iron on parts of the image, 
particularly the cementing of quartz grains by the iron under the 
right arm, which he considered as extraneous and not as particles 
pushed out in carving that part. 
Prof. E. S. Morse made some general remarks on the antiquity 
of man. 
Mr. S. H. Scudder spoke of errors liable to occur in mistaking 
natural for artificial forms and exhibited a specimen of rock forma- 
tion from the Silurian which had a remarkable likeness to a fossil 
beetle. 
Prof. H. W. Haynes said that he regarded the Nampa image as 
a most important evidence of the great antiquity of man in Amer- 
ica. He presented the following additional documentary evidence : 
Boston , November 6, 1889. 
My dear Mr. Haynes : — Professor Wright sends me a note say- 
ing that the first paper will be read on the subject of the Kurtz 
image before the Boston Society of Natural History this evening. 
He wishes something said in relation to the opportunities enjoyed 
by Mr. Cumming to know the facts both about the discovery and 
about the man who made it. 
I believe Mr. Cumming has been personally communicated with 
on this subject. I can only say of Mr. Cumming that I should 
regard his evidence in this matter as entitled to as much consider- 
ation as the evidence of any scientific man would be. He was on 
the spot the day the “find” was made, and his estimate of it would 
in my mind carry very great weight. He is, as you are aware, not 
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