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Paper Eead 1st January, 1869. 



" Man and the Mammoth: being an Account of the Animals found 

 Associated with Early Man in Pre-historic Times." By Henry 

 Woodward, E.G.S., F.Z.S., of the British Museum. 



Having a short time since drawn up a brief statement of the 

 evidences upon which the presumed antiquity of the human 

 race in Western Europe is based, and also some account of the 

 animals found associated with early man in this region, I have 

 ventured to think it may be found of sufficient interest to lay before 

 this Society. 



It is based only in a very small part upon my own observations, 

 being chiefly composed of materials gathered from the published 

 labours of my friends and colleagues, who have specially devoted 

 their time and energies to these researches. 



The question of primeval man and his contemporaries is now, by 

 common consent, admitted to be one of the most important geological 

 topics which has occupied the attention, not only of men of science, 

 but also of the educated classes generally, in the present day, and 

 notwithstanding the works already published, it may be said that 

 the public mind is still craving for fuller information. 



Nor need that craving remain altogether unrelieved, for every 

 month contributes its quota to the general store of published facts 

 and discoveries, and we may ourselves add thereto by careful obser- 



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