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PREHISTORIC KITCHEN-MIDDENS AND WHAT 
THEY TEACH US. 
By Rosert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E. 
(Read 7th November 1901.) 
Human records may be divided into two great divisions, 
viz., the written and the unwritten. The former, whether 
entombed in the volumes of a library, or engraved as 
hieroglyphics on the granite rocks of Egypt, or stamped on 
the brick tablets of the Assyrians and Babylonians, we at 
once lay aside as coming within the province of the 
historian. Of the latter, much also lies beyond the scope 
of this address. What a flood of light is thrown on the 
human past by the grave and its contents, the ruined 
temple and its religious emblems, the traditions and folklore 
still surviving among existing races, and the fragments of dead 
languages found fossilised in the nomenclature of the 
physical features of a country! But all these interesting 
studies are only indirectly associated with the subject of 
