Page:Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. 33.djvu/712

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W. BOYD DAWKINS ON THE MAMMAL-FAUNA

Fig.—Map of the Pleistocene Geography of Europe.

The double line represents the probable outline of the Pleistocene land. The vertical broken lines show the range of the southern Mammalia, and the horizontal ones that of the northern forms.

been confirmed since by repeated visits, are shared by Prof. Hughes, whose opinions on a matter of this kind are entitled to the greatest weight. At present he holds that it is postglacial.

The second reputed case of the discovery of Pleistocene mammalia in Glacial or Interglacial deposits is offered by those in the caves of Cefn explored and described by Dr. Falconer, Mrs. William Wynn, Prof. Hughes, the Rev. D. R. Thomas, and myself, and lately correlated (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxii. p. 94) by Mr. Mackintosh with the Glacial strata of the surrounding district. Here,