152 General Notes. [February, 
parts (p.9): 1. Eocene (living orders and families present) ; 
Miocene (living genera); 111. SoMa (living species); Iv. iis is- 
tocene (living species abun man appears) ;. V. er historic 
(man abundant, domestic sence, cultivated fruits); vi. Historic 
(historic records). 
Britain in the Eocene is described Beer and geographic- 
ally, and after examining carefully the fauna and the flora, Mr. 
awkins concludes that man has no ere in such an sates Cree 
of animals. Nevertheless, the lowest member of the Primates 
was represented in the upper Eocene of Europe, and throughout 
the whole of that period in America. 
The Miocene is divided likewise into upper, middle and lower, 
and the distribution of land and water, plants and animals, as well 
as the changes of climate and sea level discussed in the light of 
recent research, Was man in Europe in the Miocene age? l 
the conditions necessary to the primeval garden of Eden were 
satisfied. The flints of Thenay and the notched rib of Pouance 
are allowed their due weight, and yet Prof. Dawkins decides 
upon the whole, that the data are insufficient to establish man’s’ 
contemporaneity with the Dinothere and other members of the 
Miocene fauna. 
The Pliocene age is next passed in review, with the same sys- 
tematic treatment. Europe is no longer joined with America, and 
profound changes take place in the geology, climate, fauna and 
flora of the former. The author, however, rejects the skull of Olmo, 
the cut bones of Tuscany, and other evidences of Pliocene man. 
He says, “Of twenty-one fossil mammalia in the Pliocene of. 
Tuscany, only the hippopotamus is now living on earth. It is im- 
probable that man should have been present in such a fauna. 
9 hey belong to one stage of evolution and man to another and 
later. 
E Prof. Dawkins finds his earliest man in the Plistocene. The 
chapters upon the fauna of this age and the two races: the Drift 
men and the Cave men, are, to our thinking, the best in the book. 
In eee to Mr, Evans, the author holds that tnese two 
series are entirely distinct states of culture, of which the Cave men 
are the newer and the higher. Weare without a clue to the eth- 
nology of the River-drift man, but the many points of connection 
between the Cave men and the Eskimos can be explained only on 
the hypothesis that they belong to the same race. 
Then follows the civilization of the Prehistoric period, covering 
all the events which took place between the Pleistocene age an 
the beginning of history. No break of continuity is allowed, but 
the Tertiary period is looked upon as extending down to the 
present day. The Prehistoric period is divided into three ages, 
the Neolithic, the Bronze, and the Iron age. In the former men | 
were divided into tribal communities, engaged in agriculture, 
herding and fishing. Spinning, weaving, mining, boat-building, 
