x ii MAX AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 



.Nikitin* and Kropotkin, f of Russia. J Among leading 

 authorities still favouring a succession of Glacial epochs 

 are : Professor James Geikie, * of Scotland ; Baron de 

 Geer, I of Sweden; and Professor Felix Wahnschaffe, A 

 of Germany. 



When the first edition was issued, two years ago, there 

 seemed to be a general acceptance of all the facts detailed 

 in it which directly connected man with the Glacial period 

 both in America and in Europe ; and, indeed, I had stu- 

 diously limited myself to such facts as had been so long 

 and so fully before the public that there would seem to be 

 no necessity for going again into the details of evidence 

 relating to them. It appears, however, that this confi- 

 dence was ill-founded ; for the publication of the book 

 seems to have been the signal for a confident challenge, 

 by Mr. W. H. Holmes, of all the American evidence, with 

 intimations that the European also was very likely equally 

 defective. Q In particular Mr. Holmes denies the conclu- 

 siveness of the evidence of glacial man adduced by Dr. 

 Abbott and others at Trenton, N. J. ; Dr. Metz, at Madi- 

 sonville, Ohio; Mr. Mills, at Newcomerstown, Ohio; and 

 Miss Babbitt, at Little Falls, Minn. 



The sum of Mr. Holmes's effort amounts, however, to 



* Congres International d'Archeologie, Moscow, 1892. 

 f Nineteenth Century, January, 1894, p. 151, note. 



X The volume The Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 edited from the unpublished MSS. of the late Henry Carvill Lewis 

 (London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1894), adds much important evi- 

 dence in favour of the continuity of the Glacial epoch ; see especially 

 pp. 187, 460, 461, 466. 



# Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xxxvii, 

 Part I, pp. 127-150. 



I American Geologist, vol. viii, p. 246. 



A Forschungen zur deutschen Landes und Volkskunde von Dr. 

 A. Kirchhoff. Bd. vi, Heft i. 



Q Journal of Geology, vol. i, pp. 15-37, 147-163 ; American Ge- 

 ologist, vol. xi, pp. 219-240. 



