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of England, which have long attracted the attention of 

 collectors, and have in some cases been referred to 

 glacial or pre-glacial times. I believe, however, they 

 are all really post-glacial, though in some cases be- 

 longing to the earliest portion of that period. 1 



We may close the present chapter by presenting 

 to the eye in a tabular form the series of events 

 included in the pleistocene and modern periods of 

 the great cenozoic time. 



LATER CENOZOIC, OR TERTIARY PERIOD 



(In Ascending Order, or from the Older to the Newer) 

 NEWER PLIOCENE. A continental period of long duration, 

 elevated land, much erosion, much volcanic action. 



PLEISTOCENE. Irregular elevation and depression of the 

 land, ending in wide submergence with cold climate. Glaciers 

 on all mountains near to coasts and ice-drift over submerged 

 plains. Glacial period, with an inter-glacial mild period in the 

 middle and great submergence of the continents toward the 

 close. 



ANTHROPIC. Palanthropic, or post-glacial, in which the 

 land emerges and attains a very wide extension, and is inhabited 

 by a varied mammalian fauna. Man appears in Europe, Asia, 

 and North Africa. Terminated by a recurrence of cold and 

 great subsidence, deluging all the lower lands. Neanthropic. 

 Area of continents smaller than in the previous period. Sur- 

 viving races of men and species of animals repeople the 

 world. Modern races of men and modern animals. 



1 Prestwich on Ightham Beds,' Journ. GeoL Soc., 1893 ; Daw- 

 kins, Journ. Anthrop. Soc. t 1894. 



