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THIS purports to be a paper read before “The Bromley Naturalist (sic) Society” in November, 1902, and we can only marvel. Had it been written two or three hundred years ago we should not have been surprised, but for anyone in the twentieth century to-advance seriously the views expressed by Mr. Craven Thomas is astounding. His “science of castology” appears to be the contemplation (we cannot say study) of flint-casts which he regards as belonging to the Oolite period! But it will be sufficient to quote one paragraph from his pamphlet:—“Fossil flint is that which is composed of petrified organisms, with or without a certain amount of integument, such as leaves, branches of trees, fruit, birds, beasts, fishes, and broken parts of man”!!
Castology: a View of the Oolite Period and Earliest Man.
By J. Craven Thomas. Pp. 20. (Bromley: Kentish District Times Co., Ltd.)
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Castology: a View of the Oolite Period and Earliest Man . Nature 67, 461 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067461d0
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