224 Lloyd's natural history. 



given up also the remains of a tall, broad-skulled, and a short, 

 long-skulled race. 



Such are the only recovered links in the pedigree of our race, 

 and extremely unsatisfactory they are : indeed, beyond these 

 few spots in Western Europe, in California, and the Mississippi 

 valley in North America, Palaeontology is silent as to the 

 history of Man, and sheds no light upon his origin, or his last- 

 pithecoid parents ; for, in Professor Huxley's impressive words, 

 *' so far as that light is bright it shows him substantially as he is 

 now, and when it grows dim it permits us to see no sign that 

 he was other than he is now." 



