1894. MIOCENE MAN IN INDIA. 349 



invalidate it since.^ Indeed he held it strengthened, for at page 388 

 he stated : " Here then was clear evidence, physical and organic, 

 that the present order of things had set in from a very remote period 

 in India. Every condition was suited to the requirements of Man ; 

 the lower animals which approach him nearest in physical structure 

 were already numerous ; and the wild stocks from which he trains 

 races to bear his yoke in domesticity were established ; why then, in 

 the light of a natural enquiry, might not the human race have made 

 its appearance at that time in the same region ? " 



Greatly would our old friend, this energetic worker and philo- 

 sophic thinker, have welcomed such evidence of human workmanship 

 in Miocene times, as is shown in Dr. Noetling's discovery. The late 

 Dr. T. Oldham, fully appreciating Dr. Falconer's broad views and 

 acute observations on the remote antiquity of Man in India, entered 

 fully into the subject in the Record Geol. Survey India, vol i., 1868, 

 pp. 66-69, ^^^ transcribed from his memoirs very important portions 

 bearing upon it. 



T. Rupert Jones. 



See Quart Jonrn. Geol. Soc, vol. xxi., 1865, p. 3S6. 



