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with a few exceptions, he is so modern in build 

 that we might meet him on the streets of London 

 to-day and pass him by unnoted" (Keith, p. 32). 

 This epoch corresponds with the Reindeer 

 Period of E. Lartet, and it is divided, by Hoernes, 

 into two sub-periods. In the first of these, the 

 Reindeer Period, he places the Magdalenians, as 

 already mentioned. But in the second, or Red- 

 deer Period, he actually includes the Tourassians 

 or Asylians, that is to say, he has now got far 

 ahead of Geikie and, it may be added, most other 

 authorities on the subject, having reached the 

 zone of Transition. 



FOURTH GLACIAL PERIOD. Mecklenburgian (G.) ; 

 Wiirm (P.). 



" The younger archaeological stages the Aurig- 

 nacian, the Solutrian, and the Magdalenian 

 are closely related to this epoch, the mam- 

 malian fauna indicating for the two first-named 

 stages a somewhat cold climate (as in the cave at 

 Mentone and elsewhere), and for the Magda- 

 lenian even colder conditions. Probably the two 

 first-named stages should be assigned to the 

 dawn of the Wiirmian to the period of the 

 transition from the preceding inter-glacial epoch, 

 while the Magdalenian belongs essentially to the 

 succeeding glacial epoch " (G., 267). Magda- 

 lenian man or his implements are found all over 

 the Continent of Europe, in England, as well as 

 in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, 

 Russian Poland, etc. But it is not necessary to 

 believe, nor is it likely, that he inhabited these 



