ORDINARY MEETING.* 
H. Capman Jonzs, Hsq., M.A., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and several 
Elections took place. 
| The following Paper was read by the Author :— 
ON CUTS ON BONE AS EVIDENCE OF MAN’S 
EXISTENCE IN REMOTE AGES. By Professor T. 
McKenny Huauss, M.A. 
1 the Reliquie Aquwitanice Professor Rupert Jones has 
given an interesting account of implements of wood, 
bone, and ivory, bearing marks indicative of ownership, tallying, 
and gambling. ‘There can be no doubt that all these are of 
human workmanship. Some of them are recent ; some are 
found associated with abundant traces of primeval man ; and 
some occur on harpoons, and on other bones worked into 
useful forms. 
Cuts and scratches have been made on bone in many different 
ways and for many different reasons. Sometimes, as shown 
by Dupont, a hunter who had been successful, and brought 
down some big game, which he was unable to carry away, 
cut off afew good steaks, and, if not the hide, at any rate 
the tail, the long hair of which he required for many purposes. 
But the flesh was not so easily removed, and, where the large 
muscular portions clung closest, he had to draw his knife 
frequently across to detach it, and thus made grooves and 
scratches on the bone. So also, as pointed out by Professor 
Rupert Jones, the foot bones of deer and horse and the bones 
* May 6, 1889. 
*,.* The bone alluded to in this Paper was laid before the Meeting, and 
the accompanying illustration is a reproduction, by the Collotype process, 
of a photograph thereof. The work was executed by the Cambridge 
Philosophical Instrument Company, and has been justly admired,—Ed. 
