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In the course of in)- preliminary studies of The Migrations of Early Culture, I was struck with the remarkable cultural uses to which shells were put in widely separated parts of the world :but it was not until Mr. W. J. Perry wrote his memoir upon The Geographical Distribution of Megalithic Monuments and Ancient Mines that I came to realise what an important part the search for shells had played in the diffusion of the elements of culture and in the upbuilding of civilization. Thus it became clear that a serious attempt must be made to collect the conchological evidence. In consideration of the pitfalls into which archa:. ologists and numismatists had fallen in the past through the failure correctly to identify the shells with which they had to deal, it was equally clear that the necessary preliminary work should be done, not by an ethnographer, but by someone with a thorough knowledge of the systematic zoology of the Mollusca. In Mr. Robert Standen and Mr. Wilfrid Jackson the Manchester Museum is fortunate in possessing two acknowledged experts in systematic conchology. After discussing the question with them, Mr. Jackson undertook the task of collecting the ethnographical evidence relating to the cultural use of shells and of determining the specific identity of the latter. The first fruits of this preliminary survey rivalled the products of FatherO Flynn sintellectual achievements Down from mythology into thayology, Troth !and conchology, if hed the call. Manchester University Press, 1915. -M anchester Memoirs (L it. and Phil. Soc.J, November 24th, 1915.
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