Referee report by T. H. Huxley on 'On the Distorted Skulls Found at Wroxeter (Salop), with a Mechanico-Chemical Explanation of the Distortion' by H. Johnson
1862
Johnson
by Huxley
Jermyn S. Augt 62 1862
I do not think Dr Johnsons paper
“On the distorted skulls &c” eligible
for publication in the Philosophical Trans
for the following reasons:
I have little doubt that
the carbonic & nitric acids
contained in the soil are
competent, as Dr Johnson
supposes, to dissolve out
more or less of the earthy salts
contained in buried bones -:
but it is another matter 1st whether
the action of such acids has
been an important agent in
the distortion of the Wroxeter skulls
and 2nd supposing the fact to be
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- Author
- Henry Johnson
- Reference
- RR/4/142
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1862
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Referee report by T. H. Huxley on 'On the Distorted Skulls Found at Wroxeter (Salop), with a Mechanico-Chemical Explanation of the Distortion' by H. Johnson, 1862. From The Royal Society, RR/4/142
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