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are fonnd so abundantly in deposits whicli have a distinctly 

 human origin. If works of art had been made out of hard 

 flint in the early Tertiary period, why should we not have found 

 them in equally abundant numbers with those of the more 

 modern Post-tertiary period ? I will not ask for a reply this 

 evening. I only ask Mr. Mello to make any observations he may 

 think fit in reply to the observations made on his communication, 

 although I suppose there is not much to reply to, as the paper is 

 so generally approved. 



The Author. — I am extremely obliged to yoa for the very 

 kind way in which my paper has been received this evening, but 

 it is so late that I do not like to say anything to detain you 

 longer. I have been a good deal interested by much that has 

 been said by those who have taken part in the discussion, and I 

 think the point raised by Professor Seeley with regard to the 

 probability of a southern, as well as a northern migration, is one 

 that has not come to my notice. It is well worthy of consider- 

 ation. I do not see any reason why man, if he went north, should 

 not have sought something more of a genial chmate in the African 

 district or somewhere south. 



With regard to the connection between man and the Esquimaux 

 it is only an idea based on a certain amount of analogies, and it 

 is probable, as Professor Seeley said, that man would under similar 

 conditions develop similar habits and customs. At the same 

 time, the points that seem to connect him more closely with the 

 Esquimaux are the arts of graving and the ornamentation of bones 

 and so on, vsrhich would scarcely, perhaps, develop from a man's 

 surroundings. There seems, therefore, to be some connection 

 between them to lead to a similar development of art. 



As to what Professor Elake said, I have no technical acquain- 

 tance with bored teeth, and I am not prepared at present to say 

 anything about them, as I have not seen specimena myself, nor do 

 I remember, at the present moment, w^here any particular discussion 

 is to be found on them. I know they have been discussed, and 

 that some opinions have been brought forward to account for 

 them and in a natural way. 



With regard to incised bones, I do not know that we are driven 

 to the conclusion that those bones must have all been incised by 

 sharks, but by sword-fish also, and it has been suggested that it 

 is not impossible that bones may, in those localities, have been 

 driven over sharp flints, and sharp flints over the bones, and such 



