Note 1661 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Foster, Prehistoric Races, 50, notes some obscure facts which might indicate that man lived back of the glacial times, in the Miocene tertiary period. These are the discoveries associated with the names of Desnoyers and the Abbé Bourgeois, and familiar enough to geologists. They have found little credence. Cf. Lubbock’s Prehistoric Times, 410, and his Scientific Lectures, 140; Büchner’s Man, p. 31; Nadaillac’s Les Premiers Hommes, ii, 425; and L’Homme tertiaire (Paris, 1885); Peschel’s Races of Men, p. 34; Edward Clodd in Modern Review, July, 1880; Dawkins’ Address, Salford, 1877, p. 9; Joly, Man before Metals, 177. Quatrefages (Human Species, N. Y., 1879, p. 150) assents to their authenticity. Many of these look to the later tertiary (Pliocene) as the beginning of the human epoch; but Dawkins (No. Am. Rev., cxxxvii, 338; cf. his Early Man in Britain, p. 90), as well as Huxley, say that all real knowledge of man goes not back of the quaternary. Cf. further, Quatrefages, Introd. à l’étude des races humaines (Paris, 1887), p. 91; and his Nat. Hist. Man (N. Y., 1874), p. 44.