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THE Huxley memorial lecture was given by Prof. W. Gowland, F.R.S., oa Tuesday, November 19, at the Royal Anthropological Institute, the subject being “The Metals in Antiquity.” After pointing out the sources whence our knowledge of the use of metals by man in prehistoric and protohistoric times was derived, the lecturer gave an account of the primitive metallurgy of copper, tin, gold, lead, silver, and iron, the conditions under which they were extracted from their ores, and the localities in which they were first obtained.
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The Metals in Antiquity. . Nature 90, 344–345 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090344c0
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