A MAN OF THE CHELLEAN PERIOD i8i 
being too soft for him to get out, and also in order 
that I should see them exactly as he found them. 
Within a few days of my obtaining them, you will, 
I think, remember that I brought the skull to you 
in pieces, and you kindly offered to piece the 
remains together for me; but I preferred taking 
them away, as I then intended to work the subject 
up and describe and publish my find. This I have 
been unable to do, not having the necessary leisure 
from business, and I regret not having placed them 
in your hands before. The remains have been in 
my museum ever since, and no one has interfered 
with them, except myself and a few friends in my 
presence. So you have them exactly as they were 
found, except that I have dipped them in a solution 
to preserve them. In May last, my friend, Mr 
Frank Corner of Poplar, saw these remains and 
urged me to place them in someone's hands, so that 
a description of them might be published." 
It will be observed from Mr Elliott's letter that the 
master in the school, which overlooks the site of discovery, 
also saw the remains when they were still embedded in 
the gravel bank. By good fortune, the schoolmaster, 
Mr Matthew H. Heys, was also interested in prehistoric 
research, and was, as the following letter shows, alive to 
the importance of the find made by the workmen. In 
the summer of 1910, when Dr Frank Corner, into 
whose possession the Galley Hill remains had passed, 
gave me an opportunity of verifying Mr Newton's 
description of the skull and skeleton, I obtained the 
following letter from Mr Heys : — 
" Some time ago, in 1888, my attention was called 
to some bones found in the gravel in close proximity 
to the Galley Hill School, where I was then the head 
teacher. As soon as the intimation of this find was 
received, I visited the gravel pit, and there saw a 
few bones and about a third part of a skull (part 
of the top and side) just exposed by a workman 
