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A review of the whole subject shows it is desirable 

 that more extended investigations should be made into 

 the results of natural flint fracturing ; perhaps one of the 

 simplest methods of beginning such an investigation 

 would be to collect chipped flints from some early Tertiary 

 flint gravel from which human artifacts would necessarily 

 be absent. 



It is very desirable that the Rostro-carinate flints 

 should be submitted to as many scientific archaeologists as 

 possible. Especially it is to be desired that the scientific 

 world should benefit from such results as the further 

 examination and unrivalled experience of Professors 

 Boule, Cartailhac, Breuil, and Comment would be likely to 

 confer upon it. 



I have presented the four Rostro-carinate flints to the 

 Manchester Museum, together with a scries of associated 

 palaioliths. 



Section IV. 



Human and Animal Rkmains. 



Some years ago, in the Galley Hill pit, in the 100' 

 Thames terrace in Kent, a skeleton was found which is 

 believed b}' some authorities, notably Keith, to be con- 

 temporaneous with the early Pleistocene mammalia and 

 the Chellian implements found in the same gravels. This 

 skeleton is of an essentially modern type, and if it be 

 correctly referred to the Chellian is older than Homo 

 neandertalensis and of the same age as Eoantlnopus. 

 This would imply a sufficiently long antiquity of man 

 prior to the Pleistocene to allow for the separation of the 

 two stocks, one leading through Homo Jieidelbeigensis to 

 Homo neandertalensis and the other to the Galley Hill man. 



