Most English scientists subscribed to theory that Eoanthropus dawsoni was a

legitimate hominid fossil, and most of the English and U. S. press agreed with that.

:

British 1912-1917

Manchester Guardian: The Earliest Man? REMARKABLE DISCOVERY IN SUSSEX.

A Skull "Millions of Years" Old Manchester Guardian (November 21, 1912)

The Earliest Known Man. Manchester Guardian (November 21, 1912)

The Earliest Skull. "A HITHERTO UNKNOWN SPECIES."

STORY OF THE SUSSEX DISCOVERY. Manchester Guardian (December 10, 1912)

A. Irving. The Piltdown Skull Morning Post (January 1914)

geological and geographical

• G. F. Scott Elliot. The First Europeans. Prehistoric Man and His Story (1915)

data on fossil finds throughout Europe

ƒ • E. Ray Lankester. The Missing Link Diversions of a Naturalist (1915)

early thorough survey of the finds and significance

Boyd Dawkins. The Missing Link. Manchester Guardian (January 12, 1914)

ape-man possibilities

Nature:

Palæolithic Man. Nature (December 1912)

A. Irving. The Piltdown Horse "Grinder" Nature (August 1913)

on fossil of piece of horse's head

ƒ The Antiquity and Evolution of Man. Nature (October 1913)

Nature reviews of four pertinent books — European critics

The Piltdown Skull. Nature (Sept. 1913)

on Woodward talk

Geological Society, December 2. Nature (December 1914)

elephant femur find

Nature re. Boule. Nature (June 1915)

Boule: incompleteness of Piltdown finds

ƒ Nature re. Critics Nature (June 1916)

Miller, Waterston, Lyne

A. F. Dixon. Note on the fragment of the lower jaw from Piltdown

Nature (July 1917)

claims that jaw is much more (primitive) human- than ape-like

Nature re. Dixon. Nature (July 1917)

J. Reid Moir. The Piltdown Skull The Times (Dec. 1912)

what was found in the pit

The Oldest Human Fossil. Dublin Daily Express (August 1913)

a comical rendition

T. E. Nuttall. The Piltdown Skull Man (May 1917)

on "the already bulky mass of literature dealing with this skull

ƒ • W. P. Pycraft. The Most Ancient Inhabitant of England:

``the Newly-Found Sussex Man The Illustrated London News (Dec. 1912)

same point with more discussion and illustrations

Science Progress (1917)

argues against Miller’s claim that jaw is that of chimpanzee See Gerrit S. Miller

U.S. Favorable Reception: 1912-1917

Pleistocene Skull Found in England New York Times (Nov. 1912)

Paleolithic Skull Is a Missing Link. New York Times (Dec. 1912)

Man Had Reason before He Spoke. New York Times (Dec. 1912)

American Museum Journal (1914)

favorable, but: "may represent a deliberate hoax"

duplicates Sc. Amer. paper

• William King Gregory. Note on the Molar Teeth of the Piltdown Mandible

American Anthropologist (1916)

on approval and disapproval of scientists re. unity of jaw and skull

George Grant MacCurdy. The Man of Piltdown Science (1922)

George Grant MacCurdy. The Revision of Eoanthropus Dawsoni

Science (1916)

Favorable Reception: 1918-1953

Nature reporting Keith memorializing of pit

• H. J. Osborne White. Ouse Basin The Geology of the Country near Lewes

Memoirs of the Geological Survey England (1926)

chart of Piltdown terrace and river Ouse

ƒ • E. Cecil Curwen. The Piltdown Discoveries The Archaeology of Sussex

(1937)

chart of geological history

George Grant MacCurdy. Piltdown Man Human Origins: (1924)

on accord of scientists such as Grafton Elliot Smith

A. G. Haddon. Eoanthropus dawsoni Science (1913)

chart of hominid finds, evolutionary tree

• Earnest Hooton. Dame Eoanthropus: The First Female Intellectual

Up From the Ape (1931)

Ashley Montague. The Barcombe Mills Cranial Remains. Amer J of Phys Anthro ??