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The palaeanthropic will occupy the rest of the pleistocene, 

 and extend into the cromerian pliocene. 



All over this country and the continent there are to be 

 found large quantities of meroclastic implements : whether 

 they should all be assigned to one period it is difficult to say ; 

 the writer does not consider they should. They are just 

 rough flints partly chipped. Generally (though not always) 

 a simple rude point or cutting edge is put on, with little attempt 

 at shapening : those from some localities show very bold free- 

 struck mesoclastic work, in others it is more mioclastic. Many 

 years ago the writer first referred to these as archaeoliths. They 

 occur probably in the greatest numbers beneath the chellian, and 

 in that position were called strepyan, by my old colleague 

 Rutot, from being found at Strepy. Below these Rutot 

 recognises three other industries, mesvenian, mafflien, and 

 rutelian : each of these industries finds a counterpart in this 

 country, although not superimposed as Rutot found them 

 in Belgium. Some of the mesvenian worked flints he has sent 

 me are similar to the heteroclastic fawkhamian things of our 

 plateaux. They show round-hammer free-struck parallel flaking 

 mixed with edge flipper-work. The flints from the two under- 

 lying industries are lithoclasiologically greatly inferior to the 

 skilfully worked norwichian things, or even to the ipswichian, 

 and are probably equivalent to the older pliocene plateau 

 industries. 



In pithicanthropus and eoanthropus we are introduced to 

 two very different kinds of simian characters, the one relating 

 to the cranial vault, the conformation of the forehead, and brow- 

 ridges, and the others to a chinless ape-like jaw, all of which 

 characters are protoanthropic. What other treasures await 

 discovery we cannot say, but these two genera justify estab- 

 lishing another division — the protoanthropic. There can be 

 no doubt that the anthropoidsea resorted to the use of clubs 

 and stones long before they reached the large-brained stage 

 of eoanthropus, and as we learn more of them we shall be able 

 to subdivide this oldest division. 



I submit that one part of the facts enumerated here calls 

 for a revision of our classification, and the other suggests the 

 lines upon which this should be based. One cannot for a 

 moment claim that the classification as here set out is perfect 

 and complete. It is only submitted as a basis, and it may 



