president's address. Ixxvii. 



back to an animal something like the little ghostlike tarsier 

 of Borneo and the adjacent islands. The tarsier is a queer 

 little jumping creature about the size of a small rat, with a 

 long tail with a brush on the end, long hind legs, suckers on 

 the tips of its toes, and enormous round e3^es. Coming to 

 more recent and undoubted ancestors, a description was given 

 of a fragment of a human jaw found in Kent's Cavern, 

 Torquay, in 1867, but previously undescribed. This was 

 considered to belong to the Neanderthal type, and unless this 

 be so, I believe no Neanderthal remains have been discovered 

 in this country, the ancient skeletons which have been found 

 belonging to a type more like that of the present day, though 

 said to be contemporaneous with or immediately succeeding 

 the Neanderthal race. The great antiquity of the Ipswich 

 skeleton, alluded to in my last Address, which from its 

 position was looked upon as pre-glacial, seems to be only 

 partially accepted, though I do not know that anything has 

 been definitely proved to counteract the positive evidence of 

 the finders. Numerous flints have been found in the sub- 

 Crag detritus bed, to which their finders ascribe a human 

 origin, but about which, as about other Eoliths, there exists a 

 difference of opinion, and their evidence, unless supported in 

 other ways, could hardly be relied on for the existence of man 

 at that period. A very important recent discovery is that of 

 a fragment of a skull, comprising the greater part of the brain 

 case and one imperfect mandibular ramus, which was found 

 near Piltdown Common, Fletching, Sussex, in gravel 80 feet 

 above the present level of the river Ouse. Teeth of elephant, 

 mastodon, and hippopotamus, and bones of deer, beaver, and 

 horse were found near to the human remams, and of the same 

 age. The very thick skull closely resembles that of a young 

 Chimpanzee, with teeth of the human pattern, and is very 

 ancient, though the exact date is a matter of discussion. 

 The forehead is much steeper than ui the Neanderthal type 

 with only a feeble brow-ridge. These appear to be the 

 earliest human remains yet discovered m England. Another 

 skeleton, probably of late Palaeolithic or early Neolithic date, 



