116 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. II. 



BONE CAVES— WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO PRE- 

 HISTORIC MAN. 



By Arthur Harvey. 



(Read igih January, i8gi.) 



This paper, read at a meeting of the Biological Section, was divided 

 into the following heads : — 



1. The cosmogony of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews com- 

 pared with that of the Greeks and Romans and of our own time. 



2. Various divisions of prehistoric time. 



3. Description of cave explorations, and among these : — (a). The 

 Roset cave, by M. Caravin Cachin, translated from the Proceedings of 

 the French Association for the Advancement of Science, 1869. (b). 

 Notes of papers, in the same volume, by M. Theophile Habert, of Troyes; 

 by M. le Dr. Pommerol, of Gerzat, Puy de Dome ; by M. G. Chauvel 

 and Mr. Adrian de Montillet, (c). The bone caves of Gower, by Mr. 

 John Roberts, Swansea (Wales) Institute, 1888. (d). The cave of 

 Gabrovizza, by Dr. Carlo Marchesetti, translated from the Atti del 

 Museo Civico de Storia Naturale, Trieste. 



4. The artistic talents of prehistoric man by Dr. Lazarus Popoff, 

 Translated from a French version of the Russian original. 



5. The similarity between the habits of stone age men in Europe and 

 (the Indian) in America. 



6. Correction, from American analogy, of some current European 

 ideas on this subject. 



7. General view of the number, condition and movement of the popu- 

 lation in the stone age. 



8. Protest against the use of the name " cave-dwellers." 

 The paper dealt with, the last four heads as follows : — 



Attention is at once arrested by the remarkable similarity of all the 

 relics of prehistoric man in Europe to these articles which were in daily 

 use among the Indians of this continent when the white man burst upon 

 the American stage. Of these Indian tribes we have survivors, and of 

 their implements of flint, greenstone or diorite, jasper, shell, bone and 

 wood we have in our museum a fine collection. We find lances and 



