i6o PRIMARY FACTORS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. 



in the island of Java. To these ancient people I will 

 now devote some space. 



What had been long suspected is now established, 



Fig. i,2.—Megaladapis madagascaricnsis Forsyth Major, V2 natural size; lemuroid from PI 

 tocene bed of Madagascar, with tritubercular superior molars. From Forsyth Major. 



through the discovery and descriptions of Messrs. 

 Fraipont and Lohest of Liege ; viz. that there dwelt in 

 Europe during Paleolithic times a race of men which 



