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wild, not known in Prehistoric Ireland, 261; in Britain in Bronze age, 353.

, R. J., on discovery of Irish elks, 258.

Val d'Arno, mammalia inhabiting the Pleiocene forests of, allied to the fauna of Auvergne, 83; monkeys in forest of, 84.

Valley of Thames; see Thames.

Vegetation, 6, 7, 20, 21, 25, 28-30, 43, 47, 48, 63, 77, 78, 124, 125, 132, 145, 249, 250.

Vespertilio noctula (great bat), 40, 98.

Vezère, section across the valley of the, through the rock-shelter of Cro-Magnon (fig.), 206.

, de, human jaw found in Grotte de Fées by, 224.

Victoria Cave, Palæolithic man in the (note), 187.

on skulls of Neolithic men, 314; on the Iberian race in Germany, etc., 314.

Voles (Arvicola), first appearance, 87; water (Arvicola amphibius), 98; red field (A. glareolus), 98; short-tailed field (A. agrestis), 98; Continental field (A. arvalis), 98; Russian (Arvicola ratticeps), 99; (snowy), Arvicola nivalis, 101.

Volcanoes in British Isles, 45; of present time compared with Meiocene age, 46; developed during upper Meiocene age, 62; in the Pleiocene age, 75.

Voluta Lamberti (shell), 73.

Wales, land surface of ancient times, now covered by the sea, 253.

Walnut, 51, 293.

Warfare of the Bronze age, 364; of Neolithic tribes, 282.

Welsh people principally Celtic and Iberian, 330.

Weapons of Bronze age, 364, 365.

Weaving in Bronze age, 359; in Neolithic age, 275; comb found at Fisherton (fig.), 267.

Weeds introduced in Neolithic age, 302.

Whale (Cetodon macrocephalus) incised on antler from Laugerie-Basse (fig.), 218.

Wheat of Neolithic age, 301.

discovers remains of rhinoceros in cavern at Oreston, 144.

Wild animals of Prehistoric age, 261; extinction of the larger, 493.

, Sir W., on Irish log-houses (note), 270; on Irish dwellings, 354; stone moulds in Ireland, 363.

, Ernest, discovery of urns at Cissbury, 259, 274; on flint mines of Cissbury, 278.

, Rev. D., Mendip Hill remains, 194.

Willow, polar (Salix polaris), 130; gray and crack, 132.

on cup-stones, 289; on Neolithic skulls, 310; on iron spear-head covered with bronze, 425.

Wily, in valley of, 160, 161.

Windsor, reindeer-ford at, 155.

Windy Knoll, ossiferous deposit at (fig.), 188; exploration of, by Rooke and author, 188.

, Rev. H. H., examination of forest bed of West Somerset by, 249.

Wolf (Canis lupus), 98, 257, 262.

, Rev. J. G., figures of recent whales (note), 218.

, Searles V., on the mollusca of the British Pleiocene strata, 75; on Glacial period (note), 115.

Wood-cutting in the Bronze age, 358.

Wookey Hole, near Wells, flint implements in (figs.), 193.

on Neolithic civilisation, 304; on axes found in Scandinavia, 352; on division of Bronze age in Scandinavia, 389; opinion on the introduction of bronze, 412.

, Admiral von, on reindeer, 155.

, man and the Glacial period, 171.

Xiphodon, 32, (fig.) 33, 54.

, 125, 145.

Yorkshire caves, oldest fauna in, 187.

Zamora, mode of reducing tin ore at, 410.

Zinc, first appearance of, 410.

Zones of forest growth in Pleiocene age, 78.

Zones of Pleistocene Europe marked by range of mammals, 112.