British Association, which met at Cambridge in latter part of August, have accepted the "Grand Old Man" of the Thames, the "Swanscombe Man," described by Sir Arthur Keith as the biggest discovery made in his lifetime, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
The Swanscombe Man is nothing more than two sections of a skull—the complete occipital and the left parietal bones—but the anthropologists have been able to recreate something of his personality and the geologists to illumine his environment, They have given him an antiquity of 250,000 years ago, a brain capacity astoundingly nearer to modern man than most of his illustrious successors in the record of the rocks, and have pictured him dwelling on the banks of a River Thames which flowed from North Wales through forests inhabited by ancient elephants, monkeys, and deer,
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