The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 27] 1898 [JULY 



EARLY MAN IN SCOTLAND. 1 

 By Sir WILLIAM TURNER, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 



IN Scotland, as in other countries, man existed before the 

 time of written history. The conditions under which his 

 remains are found, and the works which he has left behind 

 him, provide the data for determining their age, not ab- 

 solutely or capable of being expressed in numbers of years, 

 but relatively to each other. 



Marked differences existed in the physical conditions of 

 Scotland, and indeed in the northern parts of England also, 

 as compared with the southern districts of England and the 

 adjoining parts of France and Belgium at the first appear- 

 ance of primeval man in those countries. It is the more 

 necessary, therefore, that the conditions then prevailing in 

 Scotland should not be overlooked. 



No evidence sufficient to satisfy geologists has been 

 advanced to prove that man existed in Britain during the 

 period called Tertiary. So far, indeed, as Scotland is con- 



1 An Address delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the 26th 

 March 1897. 



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