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with an occasional glass bead — also Venetian polychromoes 

 of " star pattern." In a separate grave, probably a cache, 

 were found a large number of finely finished quartzite knives. 

 An ossuary was found in which were the remains of an en- 

 tire family. The irregular bones were placed in the bottom 

 and were partially destroyed by fire. The long bones were 

 placed in the middle stratum and the crania on top. 



EIGHTH REGULAR MEETING. 



June 17, 1879. 



On the Zoological Relations of Man. 

 By THEODORE GILL. 



Professor Gill commenced with a notice of the views that 

 had been entertained by naturalists and anthropologists 

 respecting the relations of man to animals. These were 

 very diverse and covered almost every possible ground, from 

 the conception of the human subject as the representative 

 of a genus collateral with others, (as b}' Linnseus,) to that of 

 his exclusion from the kingdoms of nature and his reference 

 to that of spirits (as by Swainson). Those that had found 

 most general acceptance, however, were at first Blumen- 

 bach's and Cuvier's that man was the representative of a 

 peculiar order adjoining that containing the apes and lemurs, 

 and later that he was the type of a peculiar family of the 

 order of primates collateral with the apes and monkeys of 

 the old and new worlds. 



Which of these views appears to be the most probable 

 was the subject for consideration. 



The speaker then recapitulated the most important and 

 significant features in the morphology of man. The relative 

 degree of value of such characteristics was next discussed, 



