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I. INTRODUCTION.
At a time when so much attention is being directed to the implements made by Palæolithic Man, the discovery of a human skeleton in the Palæolithic gravels of this country cannot but awaken much interest. The remains which form the subject of the present communication have been submitted to me for description by Mr. Robert Elliott, of Camberwell, whose enthusiasm as a collector of flint-implements and other antiquities is well known to many of us, as is also the fine collection of these relics which he has with much labour brought together. It was in the year 1888, on one of his journeys in search of ‘implements,’ that Mr. Elliott discovered parts of a human skeleton in the gravel yielding Palæolithic implements, which, at a height of about 90 feet above the Thames, overlies the Chalk at Galley Hill, Northfleet. The particulars of this discovery are given in a letter from Mr. Elliott, which will be found at p. 518. The interest of the discovery has seemed to me sufficient to justify a full account of it being placed on record, so that all attendant circumstances may be known, and everyone interested in the matter placed in a position to draw his own conclusions as to the age of these human remains.
II. DESCRIPTION OF THE REMAINS
The portions of the skeleton which have been recovered area large part of the skull, wanting the facial bones ; the right half of the lower jaw still retaining the grinding
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