THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
excavating the gravel. To all appearances these 
bones were human. These were so intensely in- 
teresting to me, as I found almost daily Palaeolithic 
implements in this gravel, and here might be 
the remains of a man belonging to the clan or 
tribe who had made these very implements. No 
doubt could possibly arise to the observation of 
an ordinary intelligent person of their deposition 
contemporaneously with that of the gravel, for 
there was a bed of loam, in the base of which these 
human relics were embedded. The underneath 
part of the skull, as far as I could see, was resting 
on a sandy gravel. The stratum of loam was 
undisturbed. This undisturbed state of the stratum 
was so palpable to the workman that he said, ' The 
man or animal was not buried by anybody.' The 
gravel underneath the skull, of which I took 
particular notice, was stratified and undisturbed. 
" My next step was to induce the workman to 
desist from exposing these relics further until a 
photograph of them in situ had been taken ; and 
meanwhile he was to cover them carefully with 
gravel. To my utter astonishment and indignation, 
a day or two after, and before I could get a 
photographer, I found they had been removed by Mr 
R. Elliott, then a stranger to me, and without their 
having been photographed. My anticipated posses- 
sion of them was thus thwarted. I soon learned 
there was a working arrangement between Mr Elliott 
and the workman whereby the latter was subsidised 
to find fossils, implements, etc., for the former. 
"For a long time 1 took but little interest in the 
discovery, and this may account for my meagre 
description given to Mr E. T. Newton at the time 
when he read a paper before the Geological Society, 
of their Galley Hill skeleton. However, since then, 
I have been reconciled to the loss, for they fell into 
better hands than mine in many respects. 
" I cannot give details of the loamy stratum 
