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upon an enormous number of monographs, printed in various 

 parts of the world. He has also compared the remains of the 

 ancient hunters with those of the Tasmanians, Bushmen Eskimo 

 and other tribes of to-day. But quite apart from the scientitic 

 i iformation in the book, it will certainly find a permanent place 

 in the annals of pre-historic anthropology, in view of the ex- 

 traordinary lucid and fascinating character of the narratives. 

 It is a long time since we read a book with such great pleasure. 



PREHISTORIC MAN. 



With this title Dr. \\'. L. H. Duckworth gives a lucid and 

 concise summar}^ of what is known of the \-arious types of 

 prehistoric man, paying particular attention to the earliest 

 known remains. The volume is issued as one of the remarkably 

 cheap shilling ' Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature.' 

 The six chapters are under the heads of ' The Precursors of 

 Palaeolithic Man,' ' Palaeolithic Man,' ' Alluvial Deposits and 

 Caves,' ' Associated Aiimals and Implements,' ' Human Fossils 



and Geological Chroaology,' ' and Human Evolution in the 

 light of i"ecent research.' The illustrations also have been care- 

 fully selected, and admirably answer their purpose We are 

 permitted to reproduce one of them, which shews the differences 

 between three types of haman jaw bones. Fig. a is the lower 

 jaw bone of a typical ancient Briton ; b is a view of the Moustier 

 jaw, found in Dordogne, France ; and c is the Mauer or Heidel- 

 berg jaw. These views, together with the side views also giv^en 

 in Dr. Duckworth's volume, clearly indicate the differences in 

 these types of skulls. 



EVOLUTION' IN THE PAST.* 



It will be remembered that some time ago Mr. Knipe \\rote 

 a remarkable book, ' Nebula to Man,' in verse. In the present 

 work, which covers a somewhat similar field, he gives an account 

 of ancient life as now understood. The principal geological 

 ages are taken as the basis of the divisions into which the book 

 is made, and under these, the various periods, Cambrian, 

 Ordovician, Silurian, etc., occur in their order. The author's 



* By Henry R. Knipe. 

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1912 April I. 



London : Herbert & Daniel. xvi. + 242 pp., 



