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PREFACE. 



This paper was first written some few years ago and 

 read to the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society 

 at Grahamstown. It appeared in the Grahamstown " Journal " 

 at the time ; but is now out of print. Several friends have 

 been good enough to express regret at not being able to 

 obtain a copy, and as the paper contains a record of some 

 researches, however imperfect, made by myself and others 

 in South Africa, I have decided to publish it. I venture to 

 think it will have some intesest for the general reader, and 

 I also hope that some few readers may be found to pursue 

 the study of this subject, for which South Africa presents 

 such a wide and practically unexplored field. The portion 

 of the paper dealing with the bearing of the stone age on 

 evolution I have slightly altered, the rest remains as it 

 originally appeared in the " Tournal." 



Ki ruber ley, 



July, i8go. 



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