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on bone, &c., to primitive man; his paper is illustrated by a 
carefully executed collotype of the photograph of a bone which ° 
was found by Professor Hughes in such a position as to render 
it impossible that the remarkably artificial looking marks upon 
it could be attributable to human agency : The discussion on 
this paper was taken part in by Professor T. Ruperr Jongs, 
F.R.S.; Mr. A. Smira Woopwarp, F.G.S.; Mr. Park 
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Mr. W. F. Kirsy, F.E.S., of the Zoological Department of the 
British Museum, gives a paper “ On the Butterflies and Moths 
of Africa,” showing that the strictly Northern Fauna of Europe 
hardly touch Africa at all. Dr. G. W. Lerrner, a paper “On — 
the Sciences of Language and of Ethnography, with general 
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connexion with the Yoga Philosophy of the Hindus,” to- 
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This Address is followed by one by the same author “Ona 
few of the Contrasts between the Hssential Doctrines of 
Buddhism and of Christianity.’ Mr. Josspn Joun Murpuy 
contributes a paper ‘On the Factors of Evolution in Lan- 
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remarks. That distinguished Hgyptologist Monsieur KE, 
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_ Excavations at Bubastis,” &c., the discovery of which was due | 
to M, Naville’s implicit reliance on the guidance of the Bible 
record. The Rey. F. A. Watxer, D.D., F.L.S., a paper “On 
Colours in Nature.” 
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