You are an excellent observer.

Your only fault is that when you have noted certain facts you don't seem fully to appreciate their significance--which is merely a matter of inexperience.

As to the facts that you have collected, several of them are of prime importance." "I am glad you are satisfied," said I, "though I don't see that I have discovered much excepting those snails' eggs; and they don't seem to have advanced matters very much." "A definite fact, Berkeley, is a definite asset.

Perhaps we may presently find a little space in our Chinese puzzle which this fact of the detached hand will just drop into.

But, tell me, did you find nothing unexpected or suggestive about those bones--as to their number and condition, for instance ?" "Well, I thought it a little queer that the scapula and clavicle should be there.