The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

by Carveth Read

[48] Hiram S. Maxim, My Life, p. 57.

[49] Spencer and Gillen, Across Australia, p. 388.

[50] Op. cit., pp. 6-7.

[51] Op. cit., p. 78.

[52] Malay Archipelago, p. 43.

[53] See the Report of the British Association, 1900, pp. 711-30. The author has since then revised his estimates, assigning much greater depth to the Pliocene and Miocene deposits and proportionally more time for their formation. See the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, LXV. (1909).

[54] Dr. Smith Woodward’s reconstruction gives the skull of Eoanthropus a capacity of about 1300 c.c.

[55] See Ray Lankester’s Description of the Test-Specimen. R.A.I., Occasional Papers, No. 4.

[56] Book VII. chs. 69, 71, 74.

[57] E. Thompson Seton, The Arctic Prairies, pp. 304 and 352.