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Kent, and which we hope to describe shortly, it seems that the 

 view of aa exceedingly cold climate is hardly tenable now. The 

 recent physiographical researches of Prof. Davis and Messrs. 

 Bnckman and White have also released us from the necessity of 

 invoking rigour in our theories with regard to the High Terrace 

 Drift. 



In the main we endorse the conclusions arrived at from the 

 Ilford District in connection with the Middle Terrace. It seems 

 to us that the climate during this portion of the history of the 

 Thames was very similar to that of the present day. The 

 Thames at this time certainly possessed an estuary of its own. 

 There are, however, a number of vexed questions in connection 

 with the Pleistocene strata of the Thames Valley to be settled 

 before any attempts at dogmatising will succeed. 



[Part II. of this paper will appear in volume XII. — Ed.] 



End of Volume XI. 



