Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
To compare a rising island (Barbados) with one supposed to be sinking (Malta) two visits were paid to Malta and Gozo in 1933 and 1936 of four and six weeks’ duration. One is soon convinced that a good deal is yet to be learnt about these islands, especially as regards the later deposits. The Pleistocene beds of the Maltese islands occur as a number of separated deposits and can be classified into:—
page 2 note 1 Report on the Geology of the Maltese Islands, Malta, Govt. Printing Office, 1932, 5–37.Google Scholar
page 2 note 2 “Traces of the Quaternary Ice Age in the Maltese Islands,” Archivum Melitense, vol. x, No. 1, 1936, 7–16.Google Scholar
page 3 note 1 “Geological Notes on Gozo,” Geol. Mag., XXXVIII, 1891, 352.Google Scholar
page 3 note 2 The Nile Valley and Malta, 1870, p. 151.Google Scholar
page 5 note 1 “A Systematic Zoogeograph contribution to the Mollusc Fauna of the Maltese Islands and Lampedusa,” Archiv. für Naturgeschichte, N.F., Bd. 2, Heft 3, 1933, 305–353.Google Scholar
page 5 note 2 Archives de l’Institut de Pal. Humaine, Mem. 6, 1929, 1–220.Google Scholar
page 5 note 3 Baldacchino, J. G., Ann. Report Museum Deft. Malta, 1933–1934, p. xxv, and 1935–6, p. xxxi.Google Scholar
page 6 note 1 The Face of the Earth (Engl, translation), vol. i, p. 3 Google Scholar
page 6 note 2 The Nile Valley and Malta, 1870, pp. 145 and 174.Google Scholar
page 6 note 3 Geol. Mag., XLIII, 1896, p. 205.Google Scholar
page 8 note 1 Acts xxvi 41.Google Scholar
page 12 note 1 SirKeith, A., Neanderthal Man in Malta, and Peake, H. and Fleure, H. J., Hunters and Artists, 1927, p. 16.Google Scholar
page 12 note 2 SirKeith, A., “Neanderthal Man in Malta,” Journ. Roy. Anihrop. Institute, liv, 1924, 251–274.Google Scholar
page 12 note 3 “Excavations at Ghar Dalam, Malta, in the summer of 1917,” Royal Anthrop. Institute, xlviii, 1918, p. 221.Google Scholar
page 12 note 4 Report on the Geology of the Maltese Islands, Malta, Govt. Printing Office, 1932, p. 20.Google Scholar
page 13 note 1 Malta, Origini delta Civilta Mediterranea, 1934.Google Scholar
page 13 note 2 Letters to The Times, 29th Oct., 1936.Google Scholar
page 15 note 1 Geol. Mag., XXXVIII, 1891, 348.Google Scholar