DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
SIR DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., F.R.S.E.,
a dear and valued Friend,
and one of the most eminent and judicious Students of
Pre-historic Man both in Europe and America.

Summary of the Story of Early Man—Classification of Tertiary Time—Probabilities as to the Introduction of Man—The Anthropic Age As Distinguished from the Pleistocene—Its Division into Palanthropic and Neanthropic—Sketches of Palanthropic Man and His Immediate Successors