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THE interesting remarks in the News and Views columns of NATURE for Mar. 16, with reference to Bushveld man and Mr. Leakey's discoveries in Kenya, direct attention once again to the ‘Pluvial periods of Eastern Central Africa.’ I should like to be permitted to point out that while the theory which finds reason for a genetic connexion between these ‘pluviations’ and glacial episodes of higher latitudes is sound enough, and although there is evidence to show that in all probability some such connexion existed, the correlation of Kenya pluvials with definite periods of the Pleistocene, as recently set forth, is purely hypothetical. There is room for discussion concerning them; and according to my showing, which may of course be wrong, the Kenya archæological expedition's third ‘pluvial’ is, so to say, an epi-pluvial, and is (if anything) Buhl and not Würm in date; and so mutatis mutandis with the others. The Expedition's ground in the Rift Valley is likely to be full of pit falls, and in my opinion a great deal of work must be done there before one can say with confidence which of certain deposits are pluvial and which are not.
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WAYLAND, E. African Pluvial Periods. Nature 123, 607 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123607d0
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