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THE Duke of Argyll can scarcely be congratulated upon his latest discovery of a new ground of attack upon geologists. In the year 1862 a very eminent physicist, whose loss we all so deeply deplore, made the somewhat rash suggestion that flint implements are found deep down in the drift, owing to their high density as compared with that of the matrix in which they are inclosed. Seeing that the material in which the implements are found is usually a flint-gravel, everyone acquainted with the subject saw that the suggestion was, to say the least, a somewhat unfortunate one, and Prof. P. G. Tait, in seeking for an opportunity to sneer at “advanced geologists,” was scarcely kind to the memory of a deceased friend in rescuing such a suggestion from oblivion. But to the Duke of Argyll, the finding of a new basis from which to attack geologists seems to have been a chance which he could not afford to let slip.
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JUDD, J. “A Conspiracy of Silence”. Nature 37, 272 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037272a0
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