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to the African Continent, and while he sees reasons for accept- 

 ing the discovery of Palseohthic implements in the ancient 

 pleistocenes ot mdia. mingled Avith the bones of the extinct 

 animals of that age, he abstains from pronouncing any opinion 

 regarding the recent interesting discoveries in British Colum- 

 bia and elsewhere on the American Continent. Although the 

 matter is still under discussion, the evidence adduced already 

 jseems strongly to prove the existence of mankind here also 

 in pre-glacial times, and perhaps even as far back as " The 

 Pleistocene," since Whitney's discoveries in California have 

 been since confirmed by Prof. Alfred Russell Wallace, who 

 was perfectly satisfied the claim was well founded, and that 

 human remains were buried under a flow of lava of the age 

 in question. 



I have not vet seen a reliable account of Professor 

 Skertchlv's discoveries in British Columbia. He is crediteii 

 with asserting the relics he obtained there are as ancient as 

 any in Europe. 



I was perfectly satisfied when quartered at Gibraltar in 

 1846-7 that the Rock must have been joined to the African 

 Continent, from whence it derived its tailless ^Monkeys, Por- 

 cupines, etc. I was also aware that at one time animals from 

 the Dark Continent overspread Europe, but until Sir J. Evans 

 produced evidence of the fact, I never imagined proof could 

 be found of man's existence at such an early period. I kncAv 

 human remains were mixed with those of the Bear, Elephant, 

 Reindeer, in caves. This may lead only to the probability 

 of man's presence in "Glacial" or 'Tntergiacial" times. 



I recently noticed in a United States Scientific Journal 

 that Professors Scheuchert and White had arrived at Washing- 

 ton with a large collection of organic remains from Green- 

 land for the Smithsonian Institute. Through the writings of 

 Oswald Heer, Nordensjold, we learn Greenland yields 

 "Carboniferous Triassic," "lurassic" Fossils, pointing to a 

 tropical climate. The Cretaceous Rocks there indicate a sub- 

 tropical one, probably. But the Miocene Flora of Disco, etc., 

 is its more interesting feature. Where on earth can we find 



