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i?*ravadicus (whether cooked or not cannot be told) they amused 

 themselves rubbing down the substance of the bone, and making 

 a rude ornamentation by facetting it in this way. Knowing this 

 much about life in these extremely remote times, one naturally 

 wants to know more, especially seeing the great importance 

 of such discoveries in the study of that science which seeks to 

 view Man in his true perspective in the evolution of life on the 

 earth. 



As an amateur enquirer into these matters, and finding myself 

 within comparatively easy reach of Yenangyoung, it seemed to 

 me a pity not to make further search, and try to discover 

 further evidences which would place the matter beyond doubt ; 

 and this paper is a brief record of two visits made by Lieut.-Col. 

 Nichols, R.A.M.C, and myself, in December, 1900, and December, 

 1901, with this object. I am bound to confess, however, that our 

 results not only do not corroborate Dr. Noetling in his discovery 

 of Tertiary Man, but cannot, I think, fail to cast a doubt on the 

 age of the flint flakes and chips picked up by him. And, lest it 

 should be considered to be mere rashness in an amateur to 

 venture to discuss technical subjects with a professor of palae- 

 ontology, I may say that I shall endeavour to record only facts, 

 leaving discussions to others ; and that, after all, an amateur can 

 pick up stones almost as well as a professor, while a small amount 

 of geological knowledge will suffice to determine whether, at any 

 particular part of the plateau at Yenangyoung, so conspicuous a 

 band as the ferruginous conglomerate comes out on the surface, 

 or is buried one hundred feet or so below it. 



If I cannot resist at times venturing to draw conclusions from 

 facts, such conclusions are no doubt of no value whatever, and 

 may be disregarded. 



Our first visit to Yenangyoung, in the Christmas holidays of 

 1900, may be called a failure, so far as the flints are concerned. We 

 were not aware beforehand of the extremely confusing nature of 

 the ground, intersected as it is in all directions by a network of 

 ravines, and we were disappointed at not finding at Yenangyoung 

 a copy of Dr. Noetling's Geological Map, in which he had marked 

 the spot where he found the flints with No. 49. The Township 

 Officer kindly searched in his office, but the map was not forth- 

 coming, and all idea of locating the flints had to be abandoned, 



