APPENDIX. 



THE TERTIARY MAN. 



By Professor Henry W. Haynes. 



" It must not be imagined that it is in any way proved 

 that the Palaeolithic man was the first human being that ex- 

 isted. We must be prepared to wait, however, for further 

 and better authenticated discoveries before carrying his ex- 

 istence back in time further than the Pleistocene or post- 

 Tertiary period. " * This was the position assumed more than 

 twelve years ago by the eminent English geologist and 

 archaeologist, Dr. John Evans, and it was still maintained in 

 his address before the Anthropological Section of the British 

 Association on September 18, 1890. I believe that the study 

 of all the evidence in favor of the existence of the Tertiary 

 man that has been brought forward down to the present 

 time will leave the question in precisely the same state of 

 uncertainty. 



" In order to establish the existence of man at such a re- 

 mote period the proofs must be convincing. It must be 

 shown, first, that the objects found are of human workman- 

 ship ; secondly, that they are really found as stated ; and, 

 thirdly, the age of the beds in which they are found must be 

 clearly ascertained and determined." f These tests I propose 

 to apply to the evidence for the Tertiary man recently brought 



* A Few Words on Tertiary Man, Trans, of Hertfordshire Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, vol. i, p. 150. 

 f Ibid., p. 148. 



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