]-i8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OP QUEENSLAND. 



other authors to the same effect, but I gladly cite the above 

 from Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth's " Prehistoric Man" for the 

 kindly manner in which he has gathered the bread I cast 

 upon the waters so long ago, and with friendly hand laid it, 

 as he thought, upon my grave. I could not relegate him to 

 the indignity of a footnote as if my gratitude, like Milton's 

 land of no free-will, showed 



"Only what one needs must do, not who.t one would." 



I mentioned eoliths awhile back. Well, I found them by 

 scores, and I will venture to pick out bhndfold any worked 

 flint or chert or bit of quartzite from naturally fractured stones, 

 as long as my thumb has a tactile corpuscle left in working 

 order. 



Now as to Bones. As I had only stones to show, my 

 critics demanded bones. Bones are so much more satisfactory 

 than stones, they said in England then as they say in Queens- 

 land to-day. I hadn't any human bones to show ; I didn't 

 stock the Brandon Beds or I'd have had a good supply, enough 

 to go all round. It looked as if my osteological friends had 

 taken the motto De mortuis nil nisi bonum, and rendered it — 

 De mortuis, concerning Preliistoric Man ; nil, you can know 

 nothing ; nisi bonum, unless you've got Ms bones. 



Besides, had the Brandon Beds been as full of bones 

 as a glue-maker's yard it wouldn't have mattered to me ; it 

 would miss my point entirely ; it would do nothing to setthng 

 the question of the age of the tool-bearing beds — folks would 

 never grapple this, the important question. 



Then as to types — as to races. With the memory of the 

 Neanderthal and other paleeoHthic finds such as the rich stores 

 of La Madeline, which I discussed with Lartet, I was strongly 

 of opinion that in palaeolithic as in modem times more than 

 one human race was playing its part on earth. But with the 

 race question I had no personal connection. Racial characters 

 must be worked out in museums, and I was a field man. It 

 was the history, not the genealogy, of man that was my metier. 

 Indeed the very first attempt at dividing the palseohthic age 

 into stages was published by me in my book on the Fenland 

 in 1878, and repeated in my official work on Gun-flints the 

 following year. This was an additional crime ; nevertheless, 

 though this primitive effort had, naturally, many flaws in detail, 

 succeeding research has conflrmed my main contention ; and 



