are, I notice, still interested in our older inhabitants and I would, therefore,
call your attention to a skull, which we have recently found in the alluvial
gravels of this immediate vicinity..."
Soon after the doctor wrote back saying that he thought
that the skull was probably
not much older than ten thousand years, humans of those days being at best
very scarce on the continent. Professor Willis had judged that the geological
deposits in which the skull was found werer more than four thousand years
old. Considering the scarcity