38 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. in. 



The Meiocene Classification. 



The Meiocene fauna and flora of Britain are but in- 

 significant fragments of those found in the strata occupy- 

 ing a vast area in Europe, south of a line passing through 

 Antwerp, and represented in northern Germany and 

 Denmark by outliers or isolated parts of what were 

 once probably continuous formations. For the purposes 

 of this chapter, the vegetation will be considered in one 

 group, while the mammalia will be treated in three 

 groups a Lower, Middle, and Upper. It must, however, 

 be remarked that there is less difference between these 

 than between the like divisions of the Eocene described 

 in the last chapter. 



The following table represents the Meiocene classifi- 

 cation, according to Heer, Gaudry, and Forsyth Major, 

 the two latter using the mammalia as their principal 

 means of determining relative age : 



