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France, in the Crimea, in India, in America, in strata of great 

 antiquity (both North and South America), and here we have 

 them in Africa. 



The archaeology of the North African Coast has special claims 

 to attention, as from there apparently a very ancient migration 

 advanced northward, passing in one direction through Spain, and 

 in another by way of Malta, Sicily and Italy. This was cotem- 

 porary with the appearance of the Elephas Africanus in Europe, 

 whose bones have been found in intimate association with those 

 of man in various localities. It was long anterior to the immi- 

 gration of the Iberians or Basques, who by some are traced 

 to North Africa. Another point of interest may be added. The 

 only locality in the Old World where animal or effigy mounds 

 have been reported is in North Africa, in Algiers, near the forest 

 of Tenrit-el-Sad, south of Miliana. As these peculiar structures 

 are so frequent in the Mississippi Valley, the coincidence is worth 

 noting. 



Prof. Heilprtn contended, that while on the hj^pothesis of 

 evolution no objection could be raised to an assumption which 

 made an animal intermediate between man and the anthropoid 

 apes sufficiently intelligent to understand the full value and 

 manufacture of stone implements such as were exhibited, yet, as 

 a matter of fact, paleontological evidence had thus far failed to 

 prove that any such use or manufacture had been made of them, 

 as was here claimed. Indeed, no evidence was forthcoming to 

 show that the implements were not the work of man himself, 

 despite the fact that no traces of human remains were found 

 associated with the fragments. The assumption that the advent 

 of man dates only to a given period of the so-called " stone age," 

 was considered to be purely gratuitous, and to rest solely on 

 negative evidence. Many archaeologists concur in the belief that 

 his remains may yet be found in deposits of strictly Tertiary 

 age, and some, even in the early part of this period. The speaker 

 discussed the theory of the migration of races, and the succes- 

 sive introduction, into different regions, at different periods of 

 time, of the various epochs marking the development of the 

 human race. 



September 30. 



Mr. Edw. Potts in the chair. 



Twenty-four persons present. 



Henry F. Osborn, John Wanamaker, and Miss Adele M. Fielde 

 were elected members. 



The following were ordered to be printed : — 



