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Ordinary Meeting, November i8th, 19 13. 



The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of tlianks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the t;ible. The recent accessions included: '■^ The Cele- 

 bration of the 2jOt/i Anniversary of the Royal Society of London, 

 July ij — Tip, igi2" (4to., London, 1913), presented by the 

 Royal Society of London ; Thirty Theses, presented by the 

 Kaiserliche Universitats- und Landes-Bibliothek, Strassburg ; 

 and " An Index to the fournal and Proceedings of the Academy 

 of Natunl Sciences, Philadelphia, 1812 — igi2" (8vo., Phila- 

 delphia, 1913), purchased. 



A paper, entitled "The Controversies concerning the 

 Interpretation and Meaning of the Remains of the 

 Dawn-Man found near Piltdown," was read by Professor 

 G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.l)., F.R.S. 



The author referred to the fact that on February i8th, last, 

 he was able to exhibit to the Society plaster casts of the frag- 

 ments found last year near Piltdown, Sussex, which Dr. Smith 

 Woodward kindly sent him for the purpose of that meeting. On 

 that occasion he gave an account of our knowledge of ancient 

 man, and explained the new light which these interesting Sussex 

 remains shed upon the general problem of the Antiquity of 

 Man. 



Since then memoirs by Mr. Charles Dawson and Dr. Smith 

 Woodward have appeared {Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, March, 

 19 13), relating to the circumstances under which the fragments 

 were found, the nature of the material itself, and the objects 

 found with them. Mr. W. H. Sutcliffe also gave us a discourse 

 {Manchester Memoirs, Vol. 57, No. 7), in which he most 

 admirably summed up the evidence as to the nature of the 

 remains of ancient man in England, and incidentally drcussed 

 the evidence bearing upon the date of the Piltdown remains. 



