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THE question of the pre-Columbian use of the money-cowrie in America is fully discussed by me in an exhaustive memoir, dealing with the use of cowries as cult objects in the Old and New Worlds, which is on the eve of publication by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. (It will probably be published by the time this letter appears in print.) The whole subject is too vast to be discussed in a short letter, but the following remarks may be offered on the criticism levelled by Mr. H. Newell Wardle at my letter in NATURE of September 21
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JACKSON, J. Pre-Columbian Use of the Money-Cowrie in America . Nature 98, 309–310 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098309a0
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