77 



3. — This inruase and power miglit be owing, in part, to tlie greater 

 licight of the hmd, cansiug greater coudensalion of atmospheric moisture, 

 and lieavier falls of rain or snow. 



-l.^That at tliis early period England was united to the continent; 

 a nd the Thames and the Rhine flowed noithwards through a low tract 

 of land occupying the place of the North Sea, and further, that there 

 were then some glacial conditions which atfectcd the northern parts of 

 Europe. 



5. — That the terraces of river drift were formed in succession fium 

 the highest to the lowest, there having been alternate periods of erosion, 

 and deposition. 



6. — That the cutting out of the valleys to this extent is locally post- 

 glacial. 



7. — That the fact that man might have lived in the Thames valley, 

 while the North of England was under glacial conditions and uninhabi- 

 table, is quite rei'sunable and very probable. 



8. — That two sets of animals now extinct in this country existed, 

 the remains ot some of which are found associated with the works of 

 man, in the gravels; viz., the reindeer, musk ox or sheep, rhinoceros, 

 and the aurochs in the northern^the mammoth, hippopotamus, cave 

 lion, and bear in the less northern region. 



9. — With the exception of his works, no traces have so far revealed 

 wliat sort of a man this was. The skulls and other bones that have 

 been met with hitherto, have not been clearly identified as of this pale- 

 olithic age, for primitive man probably did not take the trouble to bury 

 his dead. Tlie bones of the mammoth and reindeer which have been 

 found with his weapons, are for the most part in a decomposed state, 

 I ally the ivory tusks, teeth or horns remaining. It may then be easy to 

 account for the absence of man's bones under such circumstances. 



10. — A second race of men succeeded, whose works survive them. 

 From the caves (not the gravel) we get their history ; they lived contcm- 

 poraneou.slj' with most of the animals mentioned, and scratched their 

 likenesses upon fragments of bone or ivory. Further they made needles 

 and probably sewed together skins for attire. They appear to have been 

 very like the Eskimos of the present time, and so far as we can judge, 

 were the caiiiest civilized people on this part of the earth. 



XX. 



EAST KENT NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 



Abstract of 



WOliK UF SCIENTIFIC SUB-COMMITTEE. 



Sk.i Tkmi'eu.4ii ur.s. — Temperature of the Channel, at Dover, was 



carefully recorded Li]) to end of Augu.st, 18'J1, in accordance with the 



suggestion of Special Committee of British Association. 



