Discussion on the Piltdown Skull by John Cooke (1915)

Oil painting Discussion on the Piltdown Skull by John Cooke (1915). The painting commemorates a meeting of a group of scientists at the Royal College of Surgeons on 11 August 1913 who were continuing their discussion on the skull and jaw fragments of Piltdown Man which were first presented at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Geological Society on 18 December 1912. The fraud was finally exposed in 1953. The sitters are (from back left to front right):Frank Barlow, Dr Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Dr Arthur Smith Woodward, Arthur Underwood, Dr Arthur Keith (curator of the Hunterian, Royal College of Surgeons), William Pycraft, Edwin Ray Lankester

Barlow Commemorates Continuing Cooke Curator Elliot Exposed Finally Fragments Fraud Geological Grafton Hunterian Lankester Ordinary Palaeontology Piltdown Scientists Sitters Surgeons Underwood Woodward

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