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INDEX. 



172 ; the River-drift, 124-173 ; pre- 

 sent with hippopotamus in cave of 

 Pont Newydd, 192 ; in Pleistocene 

 age, general conclusions as to, 244 ; 

 Neolithic, 265. See also Neolithic in- 

 habitants, River - drift man, Cave - 

 man. 



Manne-er-h'Roek, drawings of axes at, 

 306. 



Maps ; see Figures. 



Marmots (arctomys), first appearance, 

 87; pouched (Spermophilus citillus}, 

 96, 98 ; (alpine), Arctomys marmotta, 

 101 ; pouched (Spermophilus erythro- 

 genoides], 104. 



MAKSH, on birds with teeth (note), 7 ; 

 on the ancestors of the horse, 31 ; on 

 the Eocene Lemuroids of North 

 America, 34 ; on Coryphodon (note), 

 27. 



Marten (Mustela martes), 98, 257, 262. 



MARTIN, Emile, discoverer of human 

 remains at Grenelle, 168. 



MASSENAT, absence of pottery in 

 French caves, 209 ; on remains found 

 in Duruthy caves, 212 ; human 

 skeletons discovered by, 225. 



Mastodon, 56, 59, 80, 143 ; arvernensis, 

 80, 83, 85 ; brevirostris, 80. 



Matlock, cave, 188. 



MAUNSEL, Archdeacon, on discovery of 

 elks' heads, 258. 



Merchandise, hoards of bronze, 383. 



MEDLICOTT on River-drift man in India, 

 166 ; on fauna of the Narbada, 167. 



Megalithic tombs, Boyne, near Drog- 

 heda, 433. 



Meiocene stage of the Tertiary period, 

 characteristics of, 8 ; group of the Ter- 

 tiary strata, 10 ; period, 37 ; classifi- 

 cation of strata in Britain, 39 ; in 

 Switzerland according to HEER, 39 ; 

 in France and Germany according to 

 GAUDRY, 39 ; in Italy according to 

 FORSYTH MAJOR, 39 ; period, bio- 

 logical and physical changes in 

 Britain before the arrival of man, 

 37-69 ; age, sea of the, 40 ; geography 

 of north-western Europe in the 

 (map), 41 ; age, denudation since, 46 ; 

 age, mountains and volcanoes of the, 

 44-46 ; forests of Britain, 47 ; rivers, 

 47 ; forests, 47 ; flora of Hebrides 

 and Ireland, 49 ; on the Continent, 

 49 ; climate, 62 ; geography on the 

 Continent, 61 ; age, no evidence of a 

 Glacial period in, 65 ; age, no proof 

 of man in, 66 ; (lower) mammals, 

 53 ; birds, 54 ; (lower) vegetation, 



62 ; (mid) mammalia, 55 ; birds, 58 ; 

 (mid) forests, apes in the, 57 ; (upper) 

 land mammalia and birds of, 59 ; 

 (upper) vegetation, 63. 



Meles taxus (badger), 98. 



MELLO, Rev. J. M., discoverer of Cress- 

 well caves, 175. 



Mendip Hills, remains in caves of, 193, 

 194. 



MERK, excavations at Kesslerloch, 221. 



Mesopithecus (ape), 60. 



MESSIKOMER, on pile-dwellings, 293. 



Metallurgy of bronze, 407. 



MEYER, on the reptilia of the Meiocene 

 age (note), 43. 



Mid Eocene ; see Eocene. 



Mid Meiocene ; see Meiocene (mid). 



Mid Pleistocene ; see Pleistocene (mid). 



Migration of bisons and reindeer, 189. 



Migration of animals in Pleistocene 

 period, 114. 



Millet of Neolithic age, 301. 



MILNE-EDWARDS, A., on lower Meio- 

 cene birds, 54 ; on mid Meiocene 

 birds, 57 ; on remains of birds from 

 central and southern France, 218. 



Miner's pick, Grimes Graves (fig. ), 277. 



Mine shafts, Cissbury (fig.), 279. 



Mines, of Tuscany worked byEtruskans, 

 405 ; tin, 403 ; method of working in 

 Neolithic age, 276. 



Models of implements, etc., custom of 

 burying with the dead, by the Eski- 

 mos, 288. 



Mohrya, lake, pile-dw r ellings, 292. 



Mole(Talpa), 40, 54, 98. 



Monkeys in Pleiocene forests of Val 

 d'Arno, 84. 



MONTELIUS, Scandinavian bronze 

 swords (note), 415 ; on division of 

 Bronze age in Scandinavia, 389 ; 

 on sculptures on rocks of Sweden, 

 392. 



Moose of Prehistoric Britain in bogs of 

 Northumberland and Yorkshire, 

 Hawick, Berwickshire, and Wal- 

 thamstow, 260. 



" Moraine prof onde," 117. 



Moret, forest of, 132. 



Moss, Arctic (Hypnum turgescens), in 

 Britain, 130. 



Moss, E. J., on Irish elks' bones, 258. 



Mother Grundy's Parlour, cave, 186. 



Moulds used for casting in the Bronze 

 age, 362. 



MORTILLET, de, on existence of man 

 in France in middle of Meiocene age, 

 67 ; on flint implements found at 

 Grenelle, 168 ; subdivisions of the 



