132 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [maRr. 11, 
the account of which had been already sent to the American 
Journal of Science for publication. 
The lecture was profusely illustrated with both lantern and 
experiments, and awakened unusual interest. 
A unanimous vote of thanks was given to Pror. STEVENS at 
the close. 
March 11, 1889. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Dk. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Fifty persons present. 
After preliminary business of slight importance, Dr. J. 8. 
NEWBERRY presented the paper of the evening, entitled - 
THE MAN OF SPY, OR NEWLY DISCOVERED PALMOLITHIC SKEL- 
ETONS FROM THE VICINITY OF LIEGE, BELGIUM. 
( Abstract. ) 
After some general remarks upon the subject of the antiquity 
of man, and the interest and importance attaching to the topic, 
a description was given, illustrated with lantern views, of the 
remarkable discovery of early human remains in a cavern at 
Spy, near the city of Liége. ‘These remains are regarded as the 
most important obtained since the discovery of the celebrated 
Neanderthal skull, many years ago; and some of the most emi- 
nent paleanthropologists consider them as presenting a recog- 
nizably pithecoid type, probably of the same race as the crania 
of Neanderthal and Canstadt. 
The circumstances under which the skeletons of the men of 
Spy were found are briefly as follows :— 
About eighteen miles from Liége, near Onoz Station, on the 
side of a wooded mountain composed of carboniferous Jime- 
stone, a cave had long been known to exist. It consisted of a 
number of rooms connected by narrow passages, and some flint 
implements and other prehistoric relics had been taken from it. 
In 1885, the Count de Beauffort, to whom the property belonged, 
authorized two gentlemen of Liége, Messrs. De Puydt and Lo- 
hest, to make excavations there. The results proved to be of 
special interest, and were communicated to the public through 
a preliminary report published by the above-named gentlemen 
