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could not have belonged to the same individual as the skull 
and the jaw because it differed from them in age, according 
to one authority being definitely older, and to another distinctly 
younger, than the other fragments. These widely divergent 
views tend to neutralise one another. 
AN IMPROBABILITY. 
In considering the possibility that more than a hitherto 
unknown ape-like man, as well as a hitherto unknown man-like 
ape expired in Britain side by side in the Pleistocene period, 
and left complementary parts the one of the other, the element 
of improbability is so enormous as not to be set aside except 
for the most definite and positive anatomical reasons. The 
evidence submitted in support of each item of the arguments 
for the dissociation of the fragments was examined; and it 
was maintained that none of it was sufficiently strong to bear 
the enormous weight of improbability which these hypotheses 
imposed upon it. The author called special attention to the 
implied inference that the cranium itself was not sufficiently 
simian to be associated with the jaw : and emphasised the fact 
that the skull itself revealed certain features of a more primi- 
tive nature than any other known representative of the human 
family. 
LIVERPOOL GEOLOGISTS. 
With the Lake District and North Wales, and the interesting 
counties of Lancashire and Cheshire within its field of operations, 
the Liverpool Geological Society has ample scope for the work 
of its members, and of this every advantage seems to be taken. 
Two parts of their famjliar pink-covered publications have 
recently appeared. The first contains W. A. Whitehead’s 
Presidential Address, ‘ The Formation of a Sandstone’; J. W. 
Dunn writes on ‘Skiddaw and the Rocks of Borrowdale’ ; 
H. W. Greenwood on ‘An Example of the Paragenesis of 
Marcasite, Wurtzite, and Calcite, and its Significance,’ and a 
‘Note on a Boring at Vauxhall Distillery’; T. A. Jones on 
“The Presence of Tourmaline in Eskdale Granite’; F. T. 
Maidwell on ‘Some Recent Excavations at West Bank Dock, 
Widnes,’ and on “ Some Sections in the Lower Keuper of Run- 
corn Hill,’ the latter with microscopic notes by J. E. Wynfield 
Rhodes ; H. W. Greenwood and C. B. Travis write on ‘ The 
Mineralogical and Chemical Constitution of the Triassic Rocks 
of Wirral.’ This part is edited by E. Montag. The second 
publication is the “Cope Memorial Volume,’ and is a lengthy 
memoir on ‘the Igneous and Pyroclastic Rocks of the Ber- 
wyn Hills (North Wales)’ by the late T. H. Cope. It is edited 
by C. B. Travis, and sent out with the compliments of Mrs. 
Cope. Both publications contain results of sound work, 
1916 April 1. 
