Life of Alfred Newton : professor of comparative anatomy, Cambridg university, 1866-1907 / by A.F.R. Wollaston, with a preface by Sir Archibald Geikie.

  • Sandy Wollaston
Date:
1921
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Credit: Life of Alfred Newton : professor of comparative anatomy, Cambridg university, 1866-1907 / by A.F.R. Wollaston, with a preface by Sir Archibald Geikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FLINT JACK of head, or crown, or crest, from my boyhood ; but though h and p are in many cases interchangeable, and most likely “ cob” and “cop” have a common origin, yet I cannot think that “ cob ” would ever return to the form “ cop.” . n „ ” ™ii I do not think your explanations of pen will hold and we shall have to look further to account tor it. Likely enough it is connected with penna, but its special meaning as a hen swan seems still obscure. I shall send the copy of your article to Skeat, and il he can throw any light on the subject I will let you know. Notwithstanding what you have written, and my own suggestion now made as to “ cob,” I still think Yarre s second statement is unintelligible, though his firsL on your showing, is satisfactorily authorised. |_&ee Uict. Birds, art. “ Cob”.] Yours very truly, At.kueu Newton. September 5, 1899. My dear Harvie-Brown, I am afraid you will find it very hard to get any specimens of Flint Jack’s handiwork. You may be sure that most of his victims threw them away as soon as the fraud was exposed. Except John Evans * who, I believe, has some, I cannot think of anybody of my acquaintance likely to have any and he would not e likely to part with them. I have certainly seen some of Jack’s forgeries in Museums—the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury among others—but there they are kept for a purpose, and would not be given up. I am not sure that we may not have a few of the counterfeits in our Antiquarian Museum at Cambridge. I remeniber some one exhibiting some at a meeting of the Bay Club about the time the matter was exposed, and i think John Evans had a good deal to do with it. The ^ory is that he, or some one else, beginning to suspect h lint Jack, drew on paper the form of a purely imaginary * His are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford.