the course of the discussion on Mr Newton's paper, cover, I think, all that need be said on this point :—
"Sir John Evans expressed his high appreciation of the great care and wealth of detail that Mr Newton's paper exhibited. It seemed to him that the communication might be divided into two absolutely distinct sections the one anthropological, the other geological. It was on the latter branch of the
FIG. 23. Palæolithic Flint Implements from the Terrace-gravel at Galley Hill (½).
subject only that he proposed to say a few words. There could be, he thought, no doubt of the deposits at and near Swanscombe being true Pleistocene high-level gravels of the valley of the Thames; and the abundance of Palæolithic implements that occurred in them seemed to place their age beyond all doubt. With regard to the human remains, the real question at issue was whether they were deposited where found with the other constituent parts of the gravel, or not. It was unfortunate that so long a period had elapsed between the discovery of the bones and the attention of geologists
