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Without wishing to lay undue stress on the vakie of authorities, 

 it may not be amiss to mention that amongst those M^ho support the 

 human origin of these chipped flints may be numbered Canon 

 Greenwell (who says that he " knows of no natural agency which 

 has, or indeed could produce, the signs of work so abundantly shown 

 upon them"), Dr Blackmore, Mr E. T. Newton, Mr Allen Brown, 

 Dr Frank Corner, Dr Sturge, Mr W. H. Holmes of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Professor T. E. Jones ; many others too numerous to 

 mention, have all acknowledged their human origin, and even Sir 

 John Evans himself has accepted several. Mr Harrison could 

 furnish a long list of names of those who have entered his house 

 unbelievers but who have departed converts. Twenty years ago. 

 Plateau man was unknown ; to-day we are nearing the end of the 

 battle ; and twenty years hence he will be held to be an established 

 fact and the world will wonder that his existence should ever have 

 been doubted. 



In concluding I must thank Mr Harrison for the great assistance 

 he has rendered in the preparation of this paper. 



A. Santer Kennard. 



LiTEKATURE 



1. Prestwich, J.— On the Occurrence of Palaeolithic Flint Imi^lements in the 

 neighbourhood of Ightham, Kent ; their Distribution and Probable Age. Quart. Journ. 

 Gcol. Soc, Vol. xlv., 1889, p. 270. 



2. Prestwich, J. — On the Age, Formation, and Successive Drift Stages of the Valley 

 of the Darent, &c. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. xlvii. , 1891, p. 126. 



3. Prestwlcli, J. — On the Primitive Characters of the Flint Implements of the 

 Chalk Plateau of Kent, with reference to the Question of the Glacial or Pre-glacial Age ; 

 with notes by Messrs B. Harrison and De Barry Crawshay. Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 

 Vol. xxi., 1892, p. 246. 



4. Abbott, W. J. Lewis. — Plateau Man in Kent. Natural Science, Vol. iv. , 1894, 

 p. 257. 



5. Jones, T. Rupert. — On the Geology of the Plateau Implements of Kent. Natural 

 Science, Vol. v., 1894, p. 269. 



6. Bell, A. M. — Remarks on the Flint Implements from the Chalk Plateau of Kent. 

 Journ. Anthro}}. Inst., Vol. xxiii., 1894, p. 268. 



7. Prestwich, J. — On some Controverted Questions of Geology, p. 49. London, 1896. 



8. Cunnington, William. — The Authenticity of Plateau Man. Natural Science, 

 Vol. ix., 1897, p. 327. 



Note. — The above list does not pretend to be a complete bibliography, but it contains 

 all the papers necessary to the student. 



