FLINT IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN KENT'S CAVERN. SOT. 
Human Antiquity since he has had an opportunity of studying the 
new evidence, nor can I say whether it has occupied his attention, 
or whither it would probably lead him. Though he is the chairman 
of the Committee charged by the British Association with the ex- 
ploration of Kent’s Hole, it must be distinctly understood that 
neither he nor any other of my colleagues is committed by this 
paper to anything more than the bare facts which it contains. The 
inferences I have drawn and have submitted on this occasion are 
mine, and so far as I know they may be, I do not say that they are, 
mine only. In order to show, however, the latest expression of 
opinion by Sir C. Lyell on the question of Human antiquity, the 
following passages may be quoted from the latest edition of his 
great work (4th ed. 1873) :— 
‘“The Glacial period when the boulder-clay was accumulated, 
limits so far as our knowledge yet extends the appearance of Man 
in England” (p. 267). 
‘‘The oldest memorials of our species at aah St discovered in 
Great Britain are post-glacial, or posterior in date to the boulder- 
clay”’ (p. 271). 
‘‘The earliest signs of Man’s appearance in the British Isles, 
hitherto detected, are of post-glacial date, in the sense of being 
posterior to the grand submergence of England beneath the waters 
of the glacial sea” (p.-273). 
‘Tt was during this second continental period that Paleolithic 
Man probably inhabited Europe together with the mammoth and 
woolly rhinoceros, or with the Hlephas antiquus, Rhinoceros hemi- 
techus, and Hippopotamus major” (p. 332). 
It is obvious from the foregoing passages that Sir 0. Lyell sup- 
posed Man to have been in Britain during, but not before, the second 
continental period; whereas I, having the new evidence before me, 
hold that he must have been here prior to that time. We may feel 
assured that the eminent author just quoted merely expressed the 
opinion to which the facts then known had led him; and by no 
means intended to definitively and finally dispose of the question. 
Indeed, the possibility of sooner or later discovering evidence of a 
higher antiquity, of taking Man, in short, back to the first conti- 
nental period, must have been prominently before him. ‘‘ For the 
present,”’ he says, ‘‘ we must be content to wait and consider that 
we have made no investigations which entitle us to wonder that the 
bones or stone weapons of the era of Hlephas meridionalis [of the 
