SECOND P/IPEB. 



The following paper was then read by the Rev. R. F. McLeod, the 

 author being unavoidably absent abroad : — 



ARCHEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 



By R. HuYSHE Walkey, Esq. 



THE Science of Archseology is now so far developed that 

 it has as much right to tell the world what it thinks 

 and teaches in regard to the theory of " Evolution of 

 Man " as one of the older sciences. 



Of course, I am far from the first to give its testimony ; 

 but it seems to me that those who have already done so, 

 have treated archaeology only in conjunction with geology 

 or palseontology ; whereas, just as it is the one science 

 which devotes itself entirely to pre-historic man, so it is the 

 one branch, of all the branches of science, which is most 

 intimately affected by evolutionary theories. If there ever 

 was a connecting type, half man half anything else, its 

 remains would lie within the field of archeeological study. 

 It is always difficult to lay down any hard and fast defini- 

 tion as to where one science begins and another ends ; 

 thus, in the present case geology and antiquariai^ism blend 

 into the two extremes of archaeology, while palasontology 

 runs all through it ; but it may I think be pretty accurately 

 described as the study of pre-historic man, his remains and 

 surroundings. And it is as sucli that T have claimed foi- it 



