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Talk by Kenneth Oakley, of the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)

The speaker gives an account of the recently developed 'fluorine test' which is used to determine the relative ages of bones found in the same geological deposit. He discusses its application to the Piltdown Skull and to other fossil human skulls of doubtful antiquity.

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Kenneth Oakley

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