Bibliography - British Geological Survey

discoloration in 1877, a year before the tunnel was sealed to visitors, and had attributed it to an ‘exudation’
from the corpses of chained prisoners. This phenomenon was no longer visible when Dawson and Lewis
reopened the tunnel in 1894. Luckily, Dawson himself had visited the tunnel in 1872, when he would have
been about eight years old, and had such a clear memory of the ‘striking and unmistakable’ human forms
that he was able to make a drawing of them, which appears as Diagram No. 6 in the paper. The significance
of these shadow-markings is played down in the text, presumably at the insistence of Lewis. The carefully
drawn plans which accompany the paper, together with their calligraphic labelling, are the work of Lewis.
Photographs are by Dawson, though probably retouched. See Russell 2003, 41–48, for a full discussion.)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1912. On the discovery of a Palæolithic human skull and mandible in a
flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). Abstracts of
the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, no. 932 (28 Dec), 20‒27. (Abstract of paper and full
record of discussion, with contributions from Sir Ray Lankester, A. Keith, W. Boyd Dawkins, W. L. H.
Duckworth, Clement Reid, D. Waterston, A. S. Kennard, R. A. Smith, and E. T. Newton; includes details
of specimens exhibited. See Dawson & Woodward 1913a for full text of paper and reprint of discussion.)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1913a. On the discovery of a Palæolithic human skull and mandible in a
flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society of London, 69 (1) issued 25 Apr, 117–151 (with discuss), plates XV–XXI
(some folded). (Paper read before the Geological Society, 18 Dec 1912, at which the first formal announcement
of the Piltdown findings was made. The human skull and accompanying ape-like jaw are referred to
Eoanthropus Dawsoni, gen et sp nov; with a ‘Preliminary report on the cranial cast’ by G. E. Smith, pp. 145–7)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1913b. Supplementary note on the discovery of a Palæolithic human skull
and mandible at Piltdown (Sussex). Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, no.
949 (31 Dec), 28–31. (Abstract of paper and full record of discussion, with contributions from A. Keith, W.
J. Sollas, W. Boyd Dawkins, and A. S. Underwood; includes details of specimens exhibited. See Dawson &
Woodward 1914a for full text of paper and reprint of discussion.)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1914a. Supplementary note on the discovery of a Palæolithic human skull
and mandible at Piltdown (Sussex). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 70 (1) 25 Apr,
82–99 (with discuss), plates XIV–XV. (Paper read before the Geological Society, 17 Dec 1913; the principal
new findings included some nasal bones and a lower canine tooth; with an appendix by G. E. Smith ‘On the
exact determination of the median plane of the Piltdown skull’, pp. 93–97.)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1914b. On a bone implement from Piltdown (Sussex). Abstracts of the
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, no. 965 (10 Dec), 15–18. (Abstract of paper and full
record of discussion, with contributions from G. F. Lawrence, W. Dale, Reginald Smith, E. A. Martin,
A. S. Kennard, F. P. Mennell, and S. Hazzledine Warren. See Dawson & Woodward 1915 for full text of
paper and reprint of discussion.)
Dawson, C. & Woodward, A. S. 1915. On a bone implement from Piltdown (Sussex). Quarterly Journal of
the Geological Society of London, 71 (1) 17 Sept, 144–149 (with discuss), plate 14 (folded). (The strange
‘implement’ described here had evidently been carved from the limb-bone of an elephant. In the discussion
that followed the reading of this paper, Reginald Smith of the British Museum stated that ‘it would rank as
by far the oldest undoubted work of man in bone...’, but added that ‘the possibility of the bone having been
found and whittled in recent times must be considered.’ He could not imagine ‘any use for an implement that
looked like part of a cricket-bat.’)
Dawson, C. (See also Woodward 1911. For other papers by Dawson not listed here see Farrant.... The
Charles Dawson Collection, held by Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, consists of two boxes of documents,
two boxes of finds and some larger objects. For a full list of contents see:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=509-hasmg&cid=-1#-1 )
Dawson, W. R. (ed.) 1938. Sir Grafton Elliot Smith: a biographical record by his colleagues. London:
Jonathan Cape, 272 pp, 4 plates. (Ch. I: General biography, by W. R. Dawson, refers to Elliot Smith’s
examination of the Piltdown skull and visits to the site, pp. 59–60. Ch. VI: The Manchester period, by J. S.
B. Stopford, briefly describes the excitement in the Department of Anatomy at University of Manchester
where Smith was Professor of Anatomy at the time of the Piltdown discovery, p. 160. Full list of published
works, pp. 219–253.)