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" Dawkins's words that there had been too great a tendency to trust to the thickness of the Kent's Hole stalagmite in forming an estimate of the antiquity of the Cave men ; and I shall be agreeably surprised if they are not thus quoted in many future discussions... "
Report and Transactions - The Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ... - Page 670
by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1874
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 13

Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1880 - 462 pages
...Oreston, which furnished the materials for the Plymouth breakwater. Mr. Pengelly asserts that ho " has always abstained from, and cautioned others against...of any value, to state the basis of their denial." This challenge I shall accept ; but in the mean time must ask the reader to note that Mr. Pengelly...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 12

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1880 - 730 pages
...result must be more than doubled ; and, before closing the discussion, I said on the same page (670), " It should be added in justice to myself, that I have...stalagmite is a perfectly trustworthy chronometer." (6.) Mr. Howard in fh* "Crypt of Dates:"— When Mr. Howard said, as quoted above, " I have recently...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 13

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1881 - 438 pages
...with reading it, it may be well to repeat here what I have often said and written elsewhere ; vit, " I have always abstained from, and cautioned others...insisting that the thickness of the stalagmite is a trustworthy chronometer." It will be seen from the 20th proposition, enunciated above, that there can...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 17

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1885 - 496 pages
...Notes," to which Sir JW Dawson has done me the honour to allude, the following passage occurs : — " I have always abstained from, and cautioned others...of any value to state the basis of their denial." (Trans. Devon. Assoc. vi. 670, 1874.) Those words appeared to me in 1874, as they do still, to be an...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 17

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1885 - 492 pages
...Notes," to which Sir JW Dawson has done me the honour to allude, the following passage occurs : — " I have always abstained from, and cautioned others...of any value to state the basis of their denial." (Trans. Devon. Assoc. vi. 670, 1874.) Those words appeared to me in 1874, as they do still, to be an...
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