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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1924, Page 1

PRIMITIVE MAN. MADRID. January 28. Severn I scientists who have been carrying out investigations and excavations in an area near Cordoba, which appears to have been occupied in prehistoric times by a lake, have made discoveries which have been submitted to the Academy of Science of Cordoba. The Academy declares that a skull and several jawbones which have been found in a perleet state of picservation are those of individuals of tlie race of Neanderthal man, and are among the most ancient relics of primitive man which have ever been found in Europe. Together with the human remains have been found several utensils of stone, which seem to belong to the palaeolithic period. Neanderthal man was, according to the general view of scientists, an exceedingly primitive type of human being, who lived in Europe rather more than 50,000 years ago. He succeeded the Eoauthropus, who lived 100,000 years ago and whoso one relic is a jawbone found in Sussex in 1912. over which controversy still rages. Neanderthal man is so named from Neanderthal, near Dusseklorf, where several skulls belonging to his period have been found. ALMANACII DE GOTHA. LONDON, January 2S.' The Almanach do Gotha, the international book of reference and the premier work of its kind, is to cease publication. Founded in 17G3, it has been published since 1781 both in French and German, and particulais relating to every family of importance in Europe were to he found within its covers. Resides giving the genealogy and details concerning all the royal and princely families of Europe ,it gave information about the administration of all the different States. In the section devoted to Great Britain there could be found, in addition to the list of Court officials, Cabinet Ministers, and Consuls of other nations, such information as the numbers of each religious denomination in the counties of Southern Ireland, the locality of the palace of King Feisul of Mesopotamia, the names of his Ministers, and the particulars of tonnage for the year in the port of Zanzibar With the disappearance as a result of the war of many of the ruling houses whose pedigrees bulked largely in the almanacli much of its importance and interest has disappeared.

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