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several valleys in France and England stone implements 

 of a rude type, showing that man co-existed with the 

 mammoth and other extinct quadrupeds." "The alluvial 

 and marine deposits of the Palaeolithic age, the earliest 

 to which any vestiges of man have yet been traced back, 

 belong to a time when the physical geography of Europe 

 differed in a marked degree from that now prevailing. 

 . . . Among the general of extinct quadrupeds most 

 frequently met with in England, France, Germany, and 

 other parts of Europe, are the elephant, rhinoceros, 

 hippopotamus, horse, great Irish deer, bear, tiger, and 

 hysena. 



The first portion of The Antiquity of Man is devoted 

 to the " geological memorials of man " his bones, imple- 

 ments, etc., proving that he was an inventive animal even 

 in these early ages of the world ; the second portion is on 

 the glacial epoch, and bears strictly on the question whether 

 primitive man is pre-glacial or post-glacial ; and the 

 third and final portion treats of the " origin of species," 

 and "man's place in nature." 



The book altered public opinion as to the duration 

 of the human race upon the earth. In the same work, 

 Lyell threw in his lot with Darwin on the origin of species 

 by natural selection, although with reservations, for " he 

 never wholly accepted the inclusion of man." 



In 1871 Lyell published his Student's Elements of 

 Geology, and in this and his other books, which have 



