Chapter XI: Tertiary Man

Definition of Periods--Passage from Pliocene to Quaternary--Scarcity
of Human Remains in Tertiary--Denudation--Evidence
from Caves wanting--Tertiary Man a necessary
inference from widespread existence of Quaternary Man--Both
equally inconsistent with Genesis--Was the first
great Glaciation Pliocene or Quaternary?--Section of
Perrier--Confirms Croll's Theory--Elephas Meridionalis--Mammoth--St.
Prest--Cut Bones--Instances of Tertiary
Man--Halitherium--Balæonotus--Puy-Courny--Thenay--Evidence
for--Proofs of Human Agency--Latest Conclusions--Gaudry's
Theory--Dryopithecus--Type of Tertiary
Man--Skeleton of Castelnedolo--Shows no approach
to the Missing Link--Contrary to Theory of Evolution--Must
be sought in the Eocene--Evidence from the New
World--Glacial Period in America--Palæolithic Implements--Quaternary
Man--Similar to Europe--California--Conditions
different--Auriferous Gravels--Volcanic Eruptions--Enormous
Denudation--Great Antiquity--Flora and
Fauna--Point to Tertiary Age--Discovery of Human
Remains--Table Mountain--Latest Finds--Calaveras Skull--Summary
of Evidence--Other Evidence--Tuolumne--Brazil--Buenos
Ayres--Nampa Images--Take us farther
from First Origins and the Missing Link--If Darwin's
Theory applies to Man, must go back to the Eocene 343