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thirty-four feet from the present surface of the river bank. Professor Owen described these bones as those of a Palæolithic man, in a brochure entitled Antiquity of Tilbury Man. But his opinion has been questioned, on the
Fig. 5.—Profile of the skull of Tilbury man (1/3). (After Keith.) ground that the osseous characters of the skull were not sufficiently pronounced to assign this individual to any phase of the prehistoric period (Fig. 5). In these circumstances the only safe conclusion is that of Mr. Spurrell, who relegates it to a transition period between