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temporaneously with man in India. This speculation (which its 
author has re-enunciated in the paper whose title we have given 
above), the consequences which result from its acceptance, and 
from the acceptance of the arguments used in supporting it, are 
what we shall chiefly consider in this notice, the more especially as 
Mr. Foote’s pamphlet has a direct bearing on its probability, as 
well as being an important addition to our knowledge. It must 
be stated, however, that this hypothesis is avowedly nothing more 
than suggestive ; and whatever its ultimate fate may be, its lamented 
aythor’s memory will not lose by its promulgation any of the lustre 
with which his name is now invested, for the idea of a Miocene 
man has already been adopted by some of the highest authorities on 
the subject, though rejected by others. 
In endeavouring to estimate the bearing of known facts on its 
probability, we have arrived at somewhat adverse conclusions, but 
they are given with the highest admiration of the ingenuity 
displayed in the conception and elaboration of the idea, and of the 
genius of the naturalist who advanced it. 
Of Mr. Tylor’s book we ought to say at the outset that it is a 
work of very great interest and ability; the facts contaimed in it 
are brought together from various sources, but a large number of 
the inferences drawn are original. In the department of Compara- 
tive Mythology, the author’s division of legends, traditions, and the 
like into Historical Traditions, Myths of Observation, and Pure 
Myths would be useful, if the separation were more easy to make in 
practice. His chapter on the Geographical Distribution of Myths 
is also very instructive, although he often seems to draw a conclu- 
sion from insufficient evidence. We cannot help remarking, also, 
that although a ludicrously inconsequential argument may, when 
skilfully employed as an illustration, create an impression that 
another train of reasoning is fallacious, it by no means proves 
that such is the case. 
Mr. Lubbock’s book consists of a series of essays and lectures 
which have been published to a greater or less extent before; it 
treats chiefly of a more ancient period in the history of man than 
Mr. Tylor’s, to which it forms a useful introduction, though 
scarcely of equal scope and originality. 
The gigantic extinct Tortoise of the Sewalik Hills (Colossochelys 
Atlas) was discovered in the Miocene deposits of those mountains 
by the late Dr. Falconer and Captain (now Sir Proby) Cautley ; it 
was described by them in 1836, but the detailed account of it was 
not published until 1844 ; it is believed to have possessed a shell 
12 feet long, 8 feet in transverse diameter, and 6 feet high! In 
the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1844, Dr. Falconer 
speculated on the date of the extinction of this gigantic animal, and 
he reproduces in his paper just published the more cogent of the 
