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cave, and its confirmation by the specimen from the 

 Correze establishes this shortness of the thigh as a specific 

 character. There are also strange features in the articu- 

 lation of the bones of the thumb and of the heel which 

 Professor Boule will make known when he publishes his 

 full account of this most astonishing skeleton. 



It is worth noting here that another skull of the same 

 race that of a young individual was dug out in 1908 

 at Moustier by Mr. Hauser, a Swiss explorer. The speci- 

 men was broken into many fragments and has not been 

 satisfactorily put together, so that at present it is not 

 possible to say whether it gives any further information 

 as to the Neander Man. Also in 1909 the French 

 explorers have found another skull and skeleton of the 

 same age and race at Ferassi, near Moustier, on the 

 Veyzere. It has been carefully removed, but not yet 

 studied. The bones of the hand and of the foot are 

 complete, and will be available for confirming the 

 observations made on the skeleton of the Chapelle-aux- 

 Saints. 



We have, a few pages back, noted that behind the 

 Glacial or Moustierian period of the Pleistocene (the 

 second of our list, the Reindeer period being the latest), 

 geologists recognise a third or warm period which is 

 represented by deeper cave-deposits and by some of the 

 older sands, clays, and gravels of our river valleys. As 

 in the Moustierian deposits, so in these older deposits 

 (called " Chellean " after a French township) we find 

 abundant large flint implements (Figs. 73, 74) indicating 

 the presence of man. But the animals associated with 

 him were not the mammoth and the hairy rhinoceros ; 

 they were the Elephas antiquus and a distinct kind of 

 rhinoceros, and most distinctively the hippopotamus. 

 These beds and their animal remains and worked flints 

 occur abundantly in the South of England, and have 



