Some Recent Contributions to the Pleistocene Succession in England

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I HAVE read Dr. Sandford’s important note on “Some Recent Contributions to the Pleistocene Succession in England” (Geol. Mag., LXIX, NO. 811, January, 1932), with much pleasure and profit. So long ago as 1920 I published in the Geological Magazine (“The Geological Age of the earliest Palaeolithic Flint Implements”, LVII, No. 671, May, 1920) a communication in which I expressed the then unorthodox belief that the palaeolithic implements of England were not—as was at the time generally supposed—of post-glacial age, but were made by races of people living in warm epochs intervening between the various glacial periods. In this note I also, for the first time, made a tentative correlation of the East Anglian glacial deposits with those studied by Penck and Brückner in the Alps, and it is of much interest to me to notice how my initial work has been extended by others, among whom Dr. Sandford takes a foremost place. It is also gratifying, human nature being what it is, to find that so much of my original correlation has stood the test of time, and that my claim that the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay is of Riss age, which received much condemnation, now finds itself supported by the powerful advocacy of my friend the Abbé Breuil.