PREFATORY STATEMENT. <i 



without detriment, either in the text or in the illustrations ? if so, 

 you will please to mark, in pencil, the parts which, in your opinion, 

 may be so altered or abridged ; or, 



4th. Would an abstract, only, give all that is important in the 

 paper ? and would such abstract require any woodcut or other 

 illustration, regard being had to previous publications on the same 

 class of subjects ?. 



5th. If any illustrations accompany the paper, can any one, or 

 more, or all of them be dispensed with, being of a kind either well 

 known, or merely ideal, or too indefinite, or incorrect? 



The following is the opinion of the Keferee : — 



The Pleistocene History of Cornwall. Part I. 



(1), "This paper does not comply with any of the requirements 

 under the first query (see form herewith inclosed). The avowed 

 object of the communication was not to record any original personal 

 observations, but to arrange the plentiful material of Messrs. Boase, 

 Carne, Henwood, and others, in a connected history of the Pleis- 

 tocene period in Cornwall, an attempt not hitherto made. 



" The author was in Cornwall in 1876, and visited certain 

 localities, of which sections and descriptions had already been 

 given in well-known publications. Such being the nature of the 

 paper, it cannot be recommended for publication in the Quarterly 

 Journal, in accordance with first query. 



(4). "An abstract would suffice." 



Pleistocene History of Cornwall. Part II. 



" A. classification of the Pleistocene deposits of Cornwall. The 

 author's method of treating this part of his subject leads to a great 

 deal of repetition of Part I. There are not any new views to 

 warrant the publication, in extenso, of such a memoir in the 

 Journal. I would point out the age assigned to the oldest deposits, 

 Crousa Downs, etc., etc., which is just that which Sir H. de la 

 Beche speculated upon. 



"So also the ' Classification' is merely the order of sequence for 

 the rest of the series, which that geologist has adopted in his 

 report." 



