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Lang thanks Ewart for his pamphlet on 'Paleolithic and other horses'. He states that the idea that Neolithic man came from Asia seems to be going out of fashion.

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Gregory writes that the lower jaw of a horse has been discovered in the upper drifts filling the pre-glacial valley of the Clyde at Lanark. He suspects that it dates from around the Early Neolithic period. He asks Ewart to look at the specimen and write a short note on it for inclusion in the Hunterian Museum glacial vertebrate fossils.

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Gregory writes that he has provisionally inserted the bed in a tabular classification as Neolithic. He believes it must be post-glacial, as it represents the silting up of valleys which were excavated at the end of glacial times, but the horse jaw is the only fossil evidence of this.

Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Joseph Anderson giving a detailed bibliography of sources for information concerning archaeological finds in the blown sands of the Scottish coast. He details the relevant collections held by the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, emphasising that large portions of the collections consist of flints and stone implements from the Neolithic period. He comments that the proliferation of such finds are enhanced by the wind blown nature of sandy areas. He puts...