88 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
Since the writer called your attention to the fact that human 
remains, implements, etc., had been found associated with the 
bones of African animals in European caves, and even since 
Sir John Evans, President of the British Association for the 
advancement of Science, delivered his opening address at 
Toronto, much additional light has been thrown on _ pre- 
historic man. ‘The outlines of the human skulls figured in the 
chain of life represent those of the Neolithic period. The 
London Morning Post of February 13th, 1900, gives us 
the Hunterian oration delivered by the author of the British 
People (N. C. Macnamara) at the Royal College of Surgeons, 
England. In it I find the following remarks: “‘ From an 
analysis of this maximum number of anatomical characters 
common to man and anthropoid apes, it was proved that they 
were derived from the same stock.’’ He goes on to show that 
the defect in the ape’s skull is owing to its ossification in the 
first year of life into a rigid case, whereas in man the fore part 
does not consolidate until adult age is reached, Mr. Macnamara 
did not think this was always the case. The skull found in 
Java was clearly on the border line between iman and ape, 
while the skulls of men living in Europe during pre-glacial 
and inter-glacial periods more closely resembled in form and 
structure the crania of the Chzmpanzee than those of existing 
Europeans. Only think, gentlemen, among the many human 
skulls in the unrivalled collection of that college museum, the 
giants of old are unrepresented, what a pity it is that the 
eloquent Dr. Talmage does not forward for its acceptance the 
cranium of one who formerly attained the height, as he alleges, 
of twenty-three feet. 
The infidel utterances of Dr. Macnamara, which passed 
unrebuked by Sir William MacCormac, who presided, or by 
any of the F. R. C. S’s who tacitly acquiesced, should furnish 
Dr. Talmage with the opportunity of classifying the leading 
medical men of Great Britain with the Astronomers, Geologists 
and Archzeologists he denounced. What an interesting subject 
for a sensational sermon from one in search of notoriety. The 
hearty speaking out you advocate in religious matters is a posi- 
