408 Sir W. Turner on Early Man in Scotland. [Marcli 26, '97. 



From the consideration of what may be called the biological data 

 the conclusion seems not to be justified, that because climatic changes 

 had led to a disappearance of certain characteristic Palseolithic 

 mammals, but by no means of all, therefore Palaeolithic man had 

 vanished along with them. When Neolithic man reached western 

 Europe, he in all likelihood found his Palaeolithic predecessor settled 

 there, and a greater or less degree of fusion took place between them. 

 Hence, as the present inhabitants of Britain may claim the men both 

 of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages as their ancestors, it is possible 

 that as Neolithic man migrated northward into Scotland he may have 

 carried with him a strain of Palaeolithic blood. 



[W. T.] 



