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Note 45.—The five haclies here referred to were submitted to the Conference at 
midnight and washed, but not thoroughly. At the time, for obvious reasons, it was 
difficult to examine them critically. Four were liberally handed over by the President 
to Mr. Prestwich, the fifth being retained in Prance. The first four were carefully 
examined by l>r. Falconer after his return to London. The following are descrip¬ 
tive notes on each: 
No. 1.—Labelled “ Vue prendre en situ, A. Edwards —contour, narrow ovato- 
lanceolate, or of the lance-shaped pattern, sharp all round the edge; body 
thick, facets very irregular, and deeply conchoidal; like those which Mr. 
Evans and Dr. Falconer consider to be modern imitations; ridges separating 
the facets high and angular; surface where washed untinted like that of a 
recent flint; no patina or incrustation, no dendrites, nor glimmer from rolling; 
thin films of considerable extent without fractured margins,—Suspected to 
be modern. 
No. 2.—Washed on one side, covered with ochreous sandy matrix on the other ; 
form ovate, point broken off and rounded; body thin, facets shallow, ridges 
low or abraded ; surface discoloured and iron-tinted, with a bright glimmer; 
margin all round more or less obtuse or abraded.—Of the undoubted authentic 
type. 
No. 3.—Ovate in outline like the last, but point entire, substance mottled with 
light grey patches; in all respects, as regards facets, fractures, ridges, edges, 
fresh surface, absence of weathering, stain or patina and in matrix, like No. 1. 
—Suspected to be modern. 
No. 4.—Pointed ovate in contour; substance variegated with round whitish 
patches; in surface, fractures, edges, and absence of tinting, fresh aspect 
like No. 3. Facets excessively rude and conchoidal; dividing ridges high 
and angular; upon the thick part of the body on one side, a rude irregular 
pit with shivered fracture as if caused by a vertical blow: some of the films 
very large, quite entire, and no indication of matrix below them.—Suspected 
to be modern. 
The Fifth remained unwashed when the Conference closed. But, so far as a 
judgment could be founded upon it without removing the matrix, it presented 
the characters shown by the three, above described, suspected to be modern. 
The result of this examination and judgment, upon the whole being: one 
undoubtedly genuine; three suspected; and one undetermined. (H. F.) 
Note 46.—Authentic, in so far as they were found in situ , under the eyes of the 
Conference, without any fact having been observed or detected to support the sus¬ 
picion that they had been fraudulently introduced ; but not necessarily so in the 
sense of being proved to be genuine, in spite of the intrinsic evidence to the contrary. 
Dr. Falconer, at the final meeting, withheld his assent to the third conclusion, that 
“ the majority if not the whole of the hdches found in the lower portions of the 
gravel-pit of Moulin-Quignon, about the same time as the jaw, are genuine.” 
Note 47.—The English members expressed a wish to have an opportunity of 
deliberately comparing the haclies last found, with those submitted to the Conference 
at Paris before coming to a final conclusion ; but the proposal was overruled. 
Note 48.—Although M. de Quatrefages was unable to perceive any resemblance 
between the spots formed by the black “ gangue" upon the ivory handle of the 
penknife, and those on the ‘jaw,’ several other members of the Conference freely 
admitted a certain similarity between them, inasmuch as in both cases the specks 
were distinguished by a metallic lustre. 
The accidental observation, however, of the adhesion of these particles to the 
smooth polished surface of the ivory, proved that it was unnecessary to suppose, as 
had been suggested at one of the meetings in Paris, that any glutinant material was 
required to cause the close and firm adhesion of the “ gangue ” to the surface of 
an object. Subsequent experiments with the black “ gangue ” have fully shown that 
when applied in its soft or natural condition to any surface, however smooth, and 
apparently of any solid substance, this material, when dry, adheres with the greatest 
