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and time, and by the discussions prefixed to many of his descriptive 

 papers on Pleistocene niammals. His paper on the classification of 

 the Tertiary Period by means of the mammalian fossils demonstrated 

 the principle that successions of stratified deposits may be divided 

 on the evidence obtained by a study of the gradual evolution of 

 structure displayed by some marked group which is en plein evolution. 

 The principles established in this paper were published in a more 

 expanded form in Early Man in Britain. 



Dawkins was the first to point out the evidence indicating the 

 existence of two Pleistocene cave faunte — a lower with E. antiquus, 

 Hippopotamus, and Rhinoceros lie mitoe elms, and an upper with 

 E. primiyenius and R. tichorhinus, the two occurring sometimes in 

 the same cave. He showed, also, that the fauna of the Forest-bed 

 passes on to the former of these two periods, and so established for 

 the Pleistocene records in Britain three separated divisions. He 

 pointed out the composite character of the British Pleistocene 

 mammals, and indicated the elements derived from the 'Arctic', 

 'Southern', and 'Temperate' or 'Eastern' groups, drawing on the 

 known facts of migration to explain the apparent commingling of 

 species following changes of climate. The long-continued researches 

 on cave faunae were fittingly crowned by the discovery at Doveholes 

 in 1903 of cave mammals of Pliocene age. 



The bearing of the Pleistocene data on anthropological problems 

 is not the least important of the work done by Dawkins. His 

 suggestions that the Eskimos are the descendants of the cave men, 

 and that the Iberians are descended from the Neolithic people, have 

 assisted the complicated problems of the European anthropologist, 

 while the data gathered regarding prehistoric trade-routes and the 

 relationship of the Mykenasan culture to that of Northern Europe 

 during the Bronze Age are of extreme interest to the archaeologist. 

 Early Man in Britain became the foundation stone of researches 

 which have since developed along many lines of thought, and this 

 remarkable work has consequently become, not merelj- a popular 

 presentation of a wide group of related subjects of human interest, 

 but a classic to the archaeologist and anthropologist. 



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY PEOFESSOR W. BOYD DAWKINS. 

 (Compiled by D. M. S. Watson.) 



1862. " Ou a Hyajna Den at Wookey Hole, near Wells " : Quart. Jourii. Geol, 



Soc, vol. xviii, pp. 115-25. 



1863. " On the Molar Series of Rhi)ioceros tichorhinus'^ : Nat. Hist. Eev., vol. iii, 



pp. 525-38. 

 186-t. " On the Rhsetic and White Lias of Western and Central Somerset ; and on 

 the Discovery of a new Mammal in the Gray Marlstones beneath the 

 Bone Bed " : Quart. .Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xx, pp. 396-412. 



1865. " On the Dentition of Hymna spdtea and its Varieties, with notes on the 



Recent Species" : Nat. Hist. Rev., n.s., vol. v, pp. 80-96. 

 "On the Dentition of Rhinoceros meyarhinus, I. de Christol " : ibid., 



p. 399, figs. 1-15. 

 "On the Mammalian Remains found ))y E. Wood, Esq., near Richmond, 



Yorkshire": Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxi, pp. 493-5. 



1866. " On the Fossil British Oxen." — Part I : Bos Urus, Ciesar : ibid., vol. xxii, 



pp. 391-401. 

 "On the Dentition of Rhinoceros leptorhinus, Owen": Proc Roy. Soc. 

 vol. XV, p. 106. 



