Monday 21 January 2019 (Indoor Meeting): 'The Piltdown Man hoax – a skeleton in the cupboard'. Speaker: Dr Colin Prosser, Head Geologist, Natural England. The Piltdown hoax is perhaps the best known case of scientific forgery in the world and has been the subject of hundreds of papers, books, articles, press reports and web-pages. This talk describes the fascinating story of the hoax but also reveals the amazing, and until recently ‘forgotten’, story of the site of the Piltdown ‘finds’ - an embarrassing skeleton in the science and conservation cupboard.