_Dear Sir_:--Upon careful examination I am convinced that the
mammoth on the Indian tablet is a forgery, being copied directly
from the drawing of a mammoth on a piece of ivory found in the
cave of La Madeleine, Perigord, France. The tablet is genuine,
but the drawing upon it is recent.
Who do you think perpetrated this fraud?
Yours, very truly,
[Signed] H. CARVILL LEWIS.
Letter from Dr. F. W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum of
Archæology, Cambridge, Mass.
CAMBRIDGE, March 17, 1884.