Bibliography - British Geological Survey

Weinert, H. 1958. Zum Abschluß des Piltdown-Problems. Zeitschrift fürMorphologie und Anthropologie,
49 (1), 55–60. (Weiner was at first reluctant to accept the initial findings of the investigation into the
Piltdown forgery, but acquiesced after the full report appeared in 1955. He had examined the original finds
at the Natural History Museum in 1932, and at the time had suspected that the bones from Piltdown I and II
may have become mixed up.)
Werner, A. E. A. & Plesters, R. J. 1955. The black coating on the Piltdown canine. In: Further
contributions to the solution of the Piltdown problem / J. S. Weiner et al. Bulletin of the British Museum
(Natural History), Geology, 2 (6), 271–272.
Werth, E. 1916. Die Auflösung des Eoanthropus Dawsoni. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 48, 261–264.
(Attributes the Piltdown finds to Pan vetus and Homo Dawsoni)
Werth, E. 1919. Das Problem des tertiären Menschen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender
Freunde zu Berlin, Jahrgang 1918, 1‒32. (Eoanthropus, pp. 21‒26)
Werth, E. 1928. Der fossile Mensch: Grundzüge einer Paläanthropologie. Berlin: Borntraeger, 898 pp.
(Eoanthropus, pp. 803‒808)
White, H. J. O. 1926. The geology of the country near Lewes. London: HMSO, Memoirs of the Geological
Survey, England, explanation of sheet 319. (Description of the Ouse valley terrace gravels at Piltdown and
Barkham, pp. 63–70, with a geological cross section provided by F. H. Edmunds, fig. 10; the gravel terrace
is here shown to be only 50 ft above the present level of the River Ouse, not 80ft as previously argued by
Dawson. Includes remarks communicated by A. Smith Woodward concerning an undescribed ‘thick and
well-mineralized human skull of modern type’ found by Dawson ‘in the fields... just above Barcombe Mills
Station’ [i.e. Piltdown III], and quotes a letter from the same source respecting the location of the second
Piltdown site.)
Whittaker, J. 2005. Bits of bogus science preceding Piltdown. Skeptical Inquirer, 29 (1), 50‒51.
Williams, J. L. 1913. [Article on Piltdown remains]. Scientific American, Dec. (Cited by Spencer 1990b.
Dr J. Leon Williams, an American dentist, visited England in June 1913, and appears to have been working
on the Piltdown problem with Arthur Keith (Spencer 1990b, 70, 77, 81). Williams made a (cinematic?) film
of the excavations at Piltdown, now believed lost (Spencer 1990b, 73), from which a much-reproduced image
has been preserved showing Woodward, Dawson and Venus Hargreaves screening gravel at Piltdown, first
published by Osborn 1922.)
Wilson, A. 1956. Anglo-Saxon attitudes. London: Secker & Warburg, 412 pp. (A novel, in which the
essential storyline revolves around the recently exposed Piltdown forgery. Thus, the character of Professor
Middleton suspects an archaeological hoax of a similar kind committed forty years earlier by his friends and
colleagues, but he says nothing, and must live with his conscience. Wilson also published, in 1981, a paper
entitled ‘The genesis of Anglo-Saxon attitudes’ avail at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bai/anglo.html )
Winslow, J. H. & Meyer, A. 1983a. The perpetrator at Piltdown. Science 83, 4 (7) Sept, 32‒43, editorial 5.
(An absurd piece of sensationalism that accuses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of perpetrating the Piltdown fraud.
The evidence is circumstantial and trivial, and quite insufficient to support an argument that does little credit
to either author. For reactions to this paper see Cox 1983, Gould 1983b, Moriarty 1983, Langham 1984,
Doyle & Costello 1987, Elliott 1988; other responses are listed in Turrittin 2006, 19.)
Winslow, J. H. & Meyer, A. 1983b. Piltdown debate: not so elementary. Science 83, 4 (9), 23–24. (Reply
to criticisms from Don Richard Cox and Stephen Jay Gould)
Winton, W. 1956. The Piltdown clock. The British Steelmaker, Oct, 292‒293. (The Ashburnham brass
clock dial, an engraved piece ‘apparently’ of the seventeenth century, had once been in the collection of
Charles Dawson. While the clock plate appears to be of early 19th century date, the engraving could be late
19th or early 20th century. See Combridge 1977, Russell 2003, 144–148.)
Woodward, A. S. 1892. On a mammalian tooth from the Wealden Formation at Hastings. Proceedings of
the Zoological Society of London, for 1891, 24 (4), 585–586. (Received 17 Nov 1891; published 1 Apr
1892. Stated as having been discovered by Charles Dawson in an irregular bone-bed in the Wadhurst Clay.
Woodward pronounced this molar tooth to be ‘the first evidence of a European Cretaceous Mammal’, and
provisionally named it as a new species, Plagiaulax dawsoni. He notes the ‘extraordinary amount of wear to
which the crown has been subjected’. Mammals belonging to the genus Plagiaulax had already been found