R. F. Scharff (1856-1934) was director of the Natural History Museum in Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century. He was of the opinion that there had been a land bridge between Europe and America, which had also been home to Atlantis. Dr. Scharff addressed the Royal Irish Academy on at least two occasions[539][540] on this subject.
In 1926, Lewis Spence wrote[259.56] of Scharff as having “contributed more valuable data to the literature of Atlantean research than any other living scientist.”
Theodor Arldt (1878-1960), a German geographer, expressed similar views in 1907 regarding an Atlantic land bridge, but placed it in the Miocene Epoch millions of years ago.
