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AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI, DISCUSSED.
Question as to the Authenticity of the Fossil Man of Denise, near Le Puy-en-Velay, considered—Antiquity of the Human Race implied by that Fossil—Successive Periods of volcanic Action in Central France—With what Changes in the Mammalian Fauna they correspond—The Elephas Meridionalis anterior in Time to the implement-bearing Gravel of St. Acheul—Authenticity of the Human Fossil of Natchez on the Mississippi, discussed—The Natchez Deposit, containing Bones of Mastodon and Megalonyx, probably not older than the Flint Implements of St. Acheul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO THE EXISTING FAUNA AND FLORA.
Chronological Relation of the Glacial Period, and the earliest known Signs of Man's Appearance in Europe—Series of Tertiary Deposits in Norfolk and Suffolk immediately antecedent to the Glacial Period—Gradual Refrigeration of Climate proved by the Marine Shells of successive Groups—Marine Newer Pliocene Shells of northern Character, near Woodbridge—Section of the Norfolk Cliffs—Norwich Crag—Forest Bed and fluvio-marine Strata—Fossil Plants and Mammalia of the same—Overlying Boulder Clay and contorted Drift—Newer freshwater Formation of Mundesley compared to that of Hoxne—Great Oscillations of Level implied by the Series of Strata in the Norfolk Cliffs—Earliest known Date of Man long subsequent to the existing Fauna and Flora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE.
Chronological Relations of the Close of the Glacial Period and the earliest geological Signs of the Appearance of Man—Effects of Glaciers and Icebergs in polishing and scoring Rocks—Scandinavia once encrusted with Ice like Greenland—Outward Movement of Continental Ice in Greenland—Mild Climate of Greenland in the Miocene Period—Erratics of recent Period in Sweden—Glacial State of Sweden in the Post-Pliocene Period—Scotland formerly encrusted with Ice—Its subsequent Submergence and Re-elevation—Latest Changes produced by Glaciers in Scotland—Remains of the Mammoth and Reindeer in Scotch Boulder Clay—Parallel Roads of Glen Roy formed in Glacier Lakes—Comparatively modern Date of these Shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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