i6o PRIMARY FACTORS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. 



in the island of Java. To these ancient people I will 

 now devote some space. 



What had been long suspected is now established, 



Fig. 42. — Megaladapis Tnadagascariensis Forsyth Major, y^ natural size; lemuroid from Plis- 

 tocene bed of Madagascar, with tritubercular superior molars. From Forsyth Major. 



through the discovery and descriptions of Messrs. 

 Fraipont and Lohest of Lifege ; viz. that there dwelt in 

 Europe during Paleolithic times a race of men which 



