INDEX. 



537 



wild, not known in Prehistoric Ire- 

 land, 261 ; in Britain in Bronze age, 

 353. 



USHER, R. J., on discovery of Irish 

 elks, 258. 



V 



Val d'Arno, mammalia inhabiting the 

 Pleiocene forests of, allied to the 

 fauna of Auvergne, 83 ; monkeys in 

 forest of, 84. 



Valley of Thames ; sec Thames. 



Vegetation, 6, 7, 20, 21, 25, 28-30, 43, 

 47, 48, 63, 77, 78, 124, 125, 132, 

 145, 249, 250. 



Vcspertilio noctula (great bat), 40, 98. 



Vezere, section across the valley of the, 

 through the rock-shelter of Cro-Mag- 

 non (fig.), 206. 



VIBRAYE, de, human jaw found in 

 Grotte de Fees by, 224. 



Victoria Cave, Palaeolithic man in the 

 (note), 187. 



VIRCHOW on skulls of Neolithic men, 

 314 ; on the Iberian race in Ger- 

 many, etc., 314. 



Voles (Armcola], first appearance, 87 ; 

 water (Armcola amphil)ius\ 98 ; red 

 field (A. glareolm\ 98 ; short-tailed 

 field (A. agrestis], 98 ; Continental 

 field (A. arvalis), 98 ; Russian (Arm- 

 cola ratticeps), 99 ; (snowy), Arvicola 

 nivalis, 101. 



Volcanoes in British Isles, 45 ; of pre- 

 sent time compared with Meiocene 

 age, 46 ; developed during upper 

 Meiocene age, 62; in the Pleiocene 

 age, 75. 

 Voluta Lambcrti (shell), 73. 



W 



Wales, land surface of ancient times, 



now covered by the sea, 253. 

 Walnut, 51, 293. 

 Warfare of the Bronze age, 364 ; of 



Neolithic tribes, 282. 

 Welsh people principally Celtic and 



Iberian, 330. 



Weapons of Bronze age, 364, 365. 

 Weaving in Bronze age, 359 ; in Neo- 

 lithic age, 275 ; comb found at 



Fisherton (fig. ), 267. 

 Weeds introduced in Neolithic age, 



302. 

 Whale (Cctodon macrocephalus) incised 



on antler from Laugerie- Basse (fig. ), 



218. 

 W T heat of Neolithic age, 301. 



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WHIDBEY discovers remains of rhino- 

 ceros in cavern at Oreston, 144. 



Wild animals of Prehistoric age, 261 ; 

 extinction of the larger, 493. 



WILDE, Sir W., on Irish log-houses 

 (note), 270 ; on Irish dwellings, 

 354 ; stone moulds in Ireland, 363. 



WILLETT, Ernest, discovery of urns at 

 Cissbury, 259, 274 ; on flint mines 

 of Cissbury, 278. 



WILLIAMS, Kev. D., Mendip Hill 

 remains, 194. 



Willow, polar (Salix polaris), 130 ; 

 gray and crack, 132. 



WILSON on cup-stones, 289 ; on Neo- 

 lithic skulls, 310 ; on iron spear-head 

 covered with bronze, 425. 



Wily, in valley of, 160, 161. 



Windsor, reindeer- ford at, 155. 



Windy Knoll, ossiferous deposit at 

 (fig.)i 188 ; exploration of, by Rooke 

 PENNINGTON and author, 188. 



WINWOOD, Rev. H. H., examination of 

 forest bed of West Somerset by, 249. 



Wolf (Canis lupus], 98, 257, 262. 



WOOD, Rev. J. G., figures of recent 

 whales (note), 218. 



WOOD, Searles V., on the mollusca of 

 the British Pleiocene strata, 75 ; 

 on Glacial period (note), 115. 



Wood-cutting in the Bronze age, 358. 



Wookey Hole, near Wells, flint imple- 

 ments in (figs.), 193. . 



WORSAAE on Neolithic civilisation, 

 304 ; on axes found in Scandinavia, 

 352 ; on division of Bronze age in 

 Scandinavia, 389 ; opinion on the 

 introduction of bronze, 412. 



WRANGEL, Admiral von, on reindeer, 

 155. 



WYATT, man and the Glacial period, 

 171. 



X 



Xiphodon, 32, (fig.) 33, 54. 



YEWS, 125, 145. 



Yorkshire caves, oldest fauna in, 187. 



Zamora, mode of reducing tin ore at, 



410. 



Zinc, first appearance of, 410. 

 Zones of forest growth in Pleiocene 



age, 78. 

 Zones of Pleistocene Europe marked 



by range of mammals, 112. 



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