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MR. TIDDEMAN has shown for Yorkshire what I proved six years ago for the South of England in a paper in the Geological Magazine (vol. iv. p. 193), that glacial conditions have obtained in this country since its occupation by Palæolithic man. Unfortunately an attempt which I made to explain this coincidence between his result and mine in a letter to the same periodical in February last was rendered abortive by a clerical (or perhaps printer's) error. I would press upon geologists to consider whether the point proved is not that a glacial period has intervened since the times of Palæolithic man and the present, rather than that man existed in this country before the glacial epoch, I think Mr. Tiddeman thinks as I do; but I take the liberty of stating this view more distinctly.
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FISHER, O. The Relation of Man to the Ice-sheet. Nature 9, 42–43 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009042d0
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