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THE ZOOLOGIST


No. 735.— September, 1902.


PREHISTORIC MAN IN BURMA.

By Rodway C.J. Swinhoe.

(Plate I.)

In the year 1894, Dr. Fritz Noetling, F.G.S., Palæontologist, Geological Survey of India, published in the 'Records' of that Department an article on certain flints, believed to be artificially chipped, which were stated to have been found in a stratum of ferruginous conglomerate which encircles the dome or anticline at the oil-fields of Yenangyoung, in Upper Burma.[1]


Dr. Noetling was, when the discovery was made, studying the geology of the

  1. "On the Occurrence of Chipped (?) Flints in the Upper Miocene of Burma," by Dr. Fritz Noetling, F.G.S. ('Records of the Geological Survey of India,' vol. xxvii. 1894, part 3.)
Zool. 4th ser. vol. VI., September, 1902.
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