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his surroundings evidently gave him example and inspiration ; 
“it is on the lives of wild animals and primitive men that the 
author has based his theories as to what sort of an existence 
earliest man lived.’ While, in that far-off country, the author 
naturally had not a very extensive reference library, it is 
perhaps a little unexpected to find that the two books he 
recommends are ‘ Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age’ 
(British Museum), and ‘Man and his Fore-runners,’ by 
H. von Buttel-Reepen. 
EVOLUTION OF MAN. 
Mr. Migeod endeavours to give a sketch of the evolution 
of man from his simian ancestry down to the time that he 
attained the rank of Homo primigenius. His chapters deal 
with ‘ The Dawn,’ “ Primary Instincts,’ ‘ Proto-man,’ ‘ Progress 
in the Arts,’ ‘ From Eoliths to Paleoliths,’ ‘ Origin of Speech’ 
and ‘ Social Organisation.’ He also gives appendices (1) on 
“ Cranial Capacity in Cubic Centimetres’ of apes, ancient man, 
modern types of man, and Bismarck !; (2) ‘ Chronological 
Table’ of remains of man in Tertiary and Quaternary time, 
which is elaborate and mystifying with its estimates of years 
and various glacial periods; and (3) ‘ Hypothetical Descent 
of Man’ from ‘ Pre-pithecanthropus’ to ‘ American Aboriginal.’ 
There is a useful Glossary and an index. The book is written 
in simple language. 
STONEHENGE.* 
The Curator of the Salisbury Museum has produced a handy 
guide to Stonehenge, which, even in its present mutilated form, 
is one of the finest monuments of a prehistoric age in our 
islands. He deals with the origin of the stones, their erection, 
and when was Stonehenge built, and why? He also gives 
an account of the adjoining barrows and their contents. The 
handbook is well illustrated by H. Sumner, F.S.A. 
EARLY PALAEOLITHS. 
In The J ournal of the Anthropological Institute} Mr. J. Reid 
Moir has an illustrated paper ‘ On the Evolution of the Earliest 
Paleoliths from the Rostro-Carinate Implements.’ He 
describes ten flint ‘implements’ from beds below the Red 
and Norwich Crags, the Middle Glacial Gravel of Suffolk, 
and River Gravels of the Thames Valley and Suffolk. He 
shows how the ‘ Eagle-beak’ implements were made, and 
illustrates a number of specimens which he has seen in different 
collections, some of which, however, seem to have a more 
accidental than actual resemblance to the original ‘ rostro- 

* “Stonehenge, To-day and Yesterday,’ by F. Stevens. London : 
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ig15. 96 pp., Is. net. 
+ Vol. XLVI., 1916, pp. 197-220. 
Naturalist, 
