94 PROFESSOR T. MCKENNY HUGHES, M.A. 
mammals. Buckland’s view was, as I believe, fur more 
nearly in accordance with facts than the views of those who 
have argued for the pre-Glacial age of some of these caverns, 
which contain only the later group of early Pleistocene 
mammals. It agrees with the view that there has been a 
great submergence since the occupation of some of the known 
Pleistocene caves, but is less wild than the theory that the 
deposits of that submergence are Glacial because they contain 
a large percentage of material derived from older Glacial 
deposits. I have already combated the view that the contents 
of the Victoria Cave * were pre-Glacial, and I have recentlyt 
examined the evidence upon which the theory that the con- 
tents of the caves of Ffynon Beuno were pre-Glacial because 
they were anterior to the submergence which followed the 
Glacial age. This view was far more untenable than that of 
Dr. Buckland, for its advocates held that if the sea of the last 
submergence washed the mouth of these caves after they had 
received the deposits containing the Paleolithic remains now 
found in them, that in itself would constitute a proof that 
those remains were pre-Glacial. 
It is a very curious thing that, although we find such 
abundant evidence of Paleolithic man in caves as well as in 
river deposits, there’ should be so few remains of his bones. 
Perhaps it was because such little care was taken of the dead 
that all traces of them were soon destroyed by beasts of prey. 
However, the fact remains; and, therefore, it is of great 
importance to inquire-into any alleged occurrence of human 
bones of Palaeolithic date. One such announcement was made 
some years ago, when it was reported that a whole human 
skeleton had been found with the remains of the mammoth 
and other extinct animals in a cave on the coast near Mentone. 
The skeleton was brought to Paris, where I saw it. Ina 
photograph which was shown to me soon after the discovery 
there were two Neolithic implements lying beside the body, 
but these were not exhibited with it in Paris. The body was 
lying on its side in a red earth, with few fragments of any 
kind in it. There was a quantity of oxide of iron about the 
head, which might have been the remains either of ornaments 
in pyrites or of a pigment formed of reddle. 
Some years afterwards I had an opportuity of examining 
the place where it was said to have been found, and of con- 
* Trans. Vict. Inst. March, 1879, vol. xiii. p. 316. 
+ Q. J. GS. (Nov. 17, 1886), vol. xliii. 1887, p. 73. 
