222, PROF. T. M’KENNY HUGHES, M.A. 
some day find that man belongs to a much more remote antiquity 
than the evidence now before us would place him in. We may 
find that man existed in warmer climates during the period when 
our area was unsuited to man because of extreme glaciation. How- 
ever it may turn out, all I do is to say we must have the very 
strongest evidence; and as we are discussing this matter from year 
to year, whenever a good case like this comes under my notice 
I bring it forward, in order that by-and-by nobody may beg the 
question by saying, “Here is a bone scored in the manner you 
allow man does score bone; and.it is only man that can score a bone 
so.” There is the point where I want to challenge him. [Is it the 
fact that only man can score a bone so? No; there are other ways 
in which a bone can be cut and scored. That is the point I have 
taken up in this paper. I believe we must sum up the general 
question thus: As far as the evidence at present brought forward 
shows, no remains of man have as yet been found in this country in 
deposits of earlier date than the close of the glacial age. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
