THE PREPARATION OP THE EARTH FOR MAn's ABODE. 105' 



monkey or an ape. In the middle of page 97 he speaks of " the 

 earliest allied form to monkeys," and later on he speaks of " the 

 first anthropoid ape," which Owen thinks is more allied to the 

 gibbons. 



Professor Logan Lobley. — I am greatly indebted to you for the 

 kindness with which you have listened to my paper. I am much 

 obliged to Professor Hull for his very kind supplementary remark& 

 and also for the very interesting remarks that were subsequently 

 made. 



It Avas a very great pleasure to me to prepare this paper and to 

 read it, and I am especially glad to be here to-day to meet the 

 Institute with this subject in hand. 



I did not quite understand the question you asked me, Mr, 

 Chairman, about the Civnopithecas. 



The Chairman. — Whether you considered it to be more of a 

 monkey than an ape ? 



Professor Logan Lobley. — More allied to the monkey. The 

 anthropoid ape appears later. I do not know that I have any 

 other question to reply to. I again thank you very much for your 

 kindness. 



The Meetinor then terminated- 



The FOLLOWING Communications were Received: — 



From Colonel William Carey, C.B. : — 



'' I very much regret not having been able to attend Professor 

 liobley's lecture on ' The Preparation of the Earth's Surface for 

 Man's Abode.' I consider the same an exceedingly good one and 

 most interesting, but his division of time into three epochs, viz.. 

 Hypothetical, Consequential, and Historical — without any par- 

 ticular reference to how the same fitted in with the six days or 

 periods of creation as given in Genesis of our Scriptures — I think 

 was a very great pity ; and although he places the appearance of 

 man about the time of the Glacial period, not only is no possible 

 or probable date for it noted for the ignorant in geology, but at 

 the same time it raises the question of a pre- Adamite man allowable 

 by the accounts given in the first and second chapters of Genesis. 



