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authenticated record of the occurrence of human remains in the 

 higher river-drift that has yet been brought forward in England.' 

 (J. Allen Brown). From the anatomical characters Prof. Sollas 

 thinks it highly probable that the remains were in a natural 

 position and of the same age as the gravels, and not merely 

 interred in them at a later (Neolithic) period, as suggested by 

 Sir J. Evans and Prof. Boyd Dawkins (E. T. Newton, Meeting 

 Geolog. Soc. May 22, 1895)." 



It is certainly to be regretted that these remains were not 

 submitted to the scientific examination of Mr. Newton until 

 about seven years after they had been discovered. The very 

 completeness of the skeleton has tended to throw doubts upon 

 it ; for it has been urged that, as we do not possess so complete 

 a skeleton of the much stronger and tougher bones of the extinct 

 animals, it is not likely that we should find one in the case of 

 their human contemporaries. The answer to that can only be 

 given by the circumstances of the discovery, and that answer 

 appears to be sufficient, though not so complete as it would have 

 been if the discovery had been made known earlier. 



Small fragments of human bone have been found in other 

 circumstances, which may possibly prove to be remains of palaeo- 

 lithic Man, and may tend in time to accumulate a sufficient body 

 of evidence to afford the materials for forming a clear idea of what 

 he was like. One such fragment was found in 1882 at Bury St. 

 Edmunds, by Mr. Henry Prigg; and an ingenious projection of 

 the fragment recently made by Mr. Worthington Smith shows 

 that it coincides in its contour with the Neanderthal and Spy 

 skulls already mentioned. A frontal bone found at Strata 

 Florida, in Wales, in 1888, has also been investigated by Mr. W. 

 Smith, and presents some resemblance to those types, though he 

 is not inclined to claim any great antiquity for it. 



The same excellent writer, in his work entitled ■ Man, the 

 Primeval Savage,' has essayed to draw a picture of his subject, 

 from which I can only borrow a few touches : — " Man's voice at 

 that time was probably not an articulate voice, but a jabber, a 

 shout, a roar. . . . The human creatures differ in aspect from 

 the generality of men, women, and children of the present day ; 

 they are somewhat shorter in stature, bigger in belly, broader in 

 the back, and less upright. . . . They are much more hairy than 



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