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this end made their outlines look a little colder and harder than 

 the reality itself, cold and hard though this was; whilst under 

 certain other modes of illumination employed (it is true, only 

 occasionally, and for purposes of effect, not ex necessitate) the self- 

 same outlines looked somewhat lurid. But, howsoever produced 

 and howsoever affecting us, the light was light nevertheless, and, 

 on the whole, we preferred it a good deal to the darkness. It is 

 never well to press a metaphor too far nor too closely; so I will 

 now lay aside my parable, though it admits of some further ex- 

 tension, and take up the actual business of the Department. 



It may be well to lay before the Department, first of all, the 

 titles of a few of the principal subjects upon which we have papers 

 prepared for us ; and after, or indeed during the enumeration of 

 these specimens of what will prove, I can assure you, a very 

 valuable series of memoirs, we can proceed, as will be naturally 

 suggested, to those general considerations with which it is cus- 

 tomary to open the transactions of such assemblages as ours. 



First among our contributors I must mention the President of 

 the London Anthropological Institute, in which Institute the Eth- 

 nological Society of 1844 and the Anthropological Society of 1863 

 are united. Colonel Lane Fox has told us (' Archaeologia,' xlii. 

 p. 45, 1869) that it was whilst serving on the Sub-committee of 

 Small Arms in 1851 that he had his attention drawn to the prin- 

 ciple of continuity by observing the very slow gradations of pro- 

 gress that were taking place at that time in the military weapons 

 of our own country. Out of those labours of his on that Sub-com- 

 mittee other benefits have arisen to the country at large, of which 

 it is not my province to speak. What I have to speak of is his 

 suggestion, put out with greater definiteness in his invaluable 

 Lecture on Primitive Warfare, delivered before the United Service 

 Institution, June 5, 1868 (p. 15), to the effect that his find at 

 Cissbury furnishes the links which were wanting to connect the 

 Palaeolithic with the Neolithic Celt types. Sir John Lubbock^ 

 and Mr. Evans 2 have told us that they do not see their way 

 to accepting this view; and Mr. James Geikie, who holds that 

 the palaeolithic deposits are of pre-glacial and inter-glacial age, 

 is almost necessitated, ex hypothesi, to repudiate any such transition. 



^ Nilsson's 'Primitive Scandinavia,' Editor's Introd. p. 24. 

 2 'Flint Implements,' p. 72. 



