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APPENDIX I. 



ADDED BY THE EDITOR. 



Traces of Man in the Interglacial Deposit near Wetzikon, in 

 the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. 



By Professor L. RUTIMEYER, of Basle*. 



Swiss pits have recently afforded abundant proofs of the pre- 

 historic presence of Man associated with a fauna indicating very 

 different conditions from those of the present time, and establish- 

 ing a far higher antiquity for the human race than has been shown 

 in the remains belonging to lake-dwellings in Switzerland. 



France, Belgium, and England have contributed important 

 data to illustrate remote prehistoric epochs ; cosmopolitan cha- 

 racteristics have been noticed in the discoveries which have been 

 made ; and the larger proportion of extinct species of the fauna 

 contemporaneous with traces of Man in those countries, as well 

 as in Switzerland, gives a very distant period for the first appear- 

 ance of the human race. 



A standard of time may possibly be arrived at from the facts 

 to be here narrated. 



Prof. Arnold Escher de la Linth demonstrated that a vast 

 glacial deposit had overlain the lignites worked in some parts of 

 Eastern Switzerland, especially on the eastern shore of the Lake 

 of Zurich from Wetzikon to Utznach, as well as in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Lake of Constance, between St. Gall and Arbon, 



* From the Archives of Anthropology (' Archiv fur Anthropologie '), a 

 periodical of Natural History and of Primaeval Human History, vol. viii., 

 second quarterly number, August 1875, p. 133. Brunswick, 1875. 



