384 Changes at the British Museum. 
LE. primigenius, etc., are forms “so distinct from those which are 
known to have inhabited this country in Post-Glacial times,” re- 
quires no modification: it is a fact. Nevertheless as my remarks 
were made in the hope of eliciting some discussion, I will, with your 
consent, try to pass Mr. Dalton’s examination. Thus the remarks 
on the term “ Post-Glacial’’ were intended as a protest against the 
use, without explanation, of such a definite classification to beds 
whose age has been a matter of controversy; and when (as regards 
the district described) precision is not possible in the present state: 
of the evidence. I use the terms Glacial and Post-Glacial in the 
same sense as the term Carboniferous is used, to mark periods of 
time, no matter what deposits took place, or what fluctuations of 
climate occurred. I hold that the Glacial period in Britain may 
very conveniently be regarded as synonymous with the Pleistocene 
and Paleolithic age; deposits with Paleolithic implements (Brandon 
Beds) having been discovered to be of strictly Glacial age, and such 
implements (where found in mammaliferous deposits) having as 
associates the group of animals in question. The passing away of 
the Glacial conditions in Britain allowed of the incoming of the 
present fauna. It might, of course, be said that as land-ice is now 
met with in the polar regions, we are still living in the Glacial 
period; with equal propriety might it he said that we are still living 
in the Pliocene or in the Cretaceous period, but there would be no 
limit to such diversions. We can no more expect to correlate our 
local divisions with those in other parts of the world, than we can 
make the reigns of our sovereigns correspond with those of rulers in 
other countries. The following classification seems best to meet the 
requirements of the case, the Pliocene beds being inserted in order 
to show their relations :— 
Reet { Historie 
A Neolithic and Prehistoric. 
PLEISTOCENE. Paleolithic and Glacial. 
PLIOCENE. Norwich and Red Crags. ° 
Upper Crae. { Forest Bed Series and Bure Valley Beds. 
Lower Crag. Coralline Crag. 
Heaty Vitus, FAKENHAM, 
July 3rd, 1880. Horace B. Woopwarp. 
British Museum (Natural History).—It will interest the scientific 
public to learn that the removal of the Natural History portion of 
the British Museum Collections to the new building prepared for 
their reception (on the site of the old 1862 Exhibition), in Cromwell 
Road, has actually commenced. The whole of the Mineralogical, 
and a portion of the Geological Galleries are closed to the public, 
and the collections are being steadily transferred. Mr. Lazarus 
Fletcher, M.A., F.G.S., has been appointed Keeper of Mineralogy, 
vice Professor N.S. Maskelyne, F.R.S., M.P., resigned. Dr. Henry 
Woodward, F.R.S., has been appointed Keeper of Geology, vice 
G. R. Waterhouse, Hsq., resigned. 
