G. GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY. 279 



1600 centuries. If man be of preglacial age, his antiquity iu 

 Britain is therefore fully 200,000 years. 



While Great Britain was still joined to the Continent, neo- 

 lithic man and his associated animals made their appearance 

 (the winters being severe enough to freeze over the rivers in 

 the south of England), coming in from the east and south, or 

 from regions whence they had been previously displaced by 

 these climatological changes. However the intervals indi- 

 cated may have been bridged over for them elsewhere, Mr. 

 Geikie is quite satisfied that they were entirely absent from 

 Great Britain for a very long period of years. 18 A^ Febru- 

 ary l^,\m^,b2Z. 



ALLEGED OCCUEREXCE OF MAN IN THE MIOCENE OF 



TUEKEY. 



Sir John Lubbock announces the discovery, by Mr. Frank 

 Calvert, near the Dardanelles, of what he considers to be 

 conclusive evidences of the existence of man durinsj the mio- 

 cene period. Among these is a fragment of a bone, belong- 

 ing probably to the JDinotJieritim, or the mastodon, on the 

 convex side of which is engraved a representation of a horned 

 quadruped, " with arched neck, lozenge - shaped chest, long 

 body, straight fore-legs, and broad feet." There are also, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Calvert, traces of seven or eight other figures, 

 which, however, are nearly obliterated. He also found in 

 the same stratum a flint-flake and several bones broken as if 

 for the extraction of marrow. If this discovery be genuine (it 

 yet is far from being credible), it would appear to prove not 

 only that man existed in the miocene period, but that he had 

 already made at least some progress in art. 12 A^March 27, 

 1873,401. 



ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN CORSICA. 



The existence of osseous breccia in the vicinity of Bastia, 

 in Corsica, has been long known to naturalists, and a point 

 of special interest among these remains was a species oi La- 

 gomys^2i small tailless animal allied -to the hares, certain spe- 

 cies of which are found at the present time in the alpine and 

 sub-alpine regions of Europe and America. Quite recently, 

 however, the interest in their occurrence has been increased 

 by the determination that, among other bones in these de- 



