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Summary of Papers. 



Dr. Mathew described a series corresponding to that illustrat- 

 ing the evolution of the horse, and which is almost equally 

 complete. 



It shows the derivation of the camel from small primitive 

 four-toed ancestors which were exclusively North American in 

 habitat. The earliest known ancestors are tiny animals no larger 

 than a rabbit. The camels reached their maximum size and 

 abundance in the Pliocene epoch, when they were much larger 

 than the modern camels. Then they spread to the other conti- 

 nents, disappeared entirely from North America and became 

 smaller in size and far less numerous in species elsewhere. 



Dr. Hovey showed lantern slides from some of the photo- 

 graphs taken by him in St. Vincent and Martinique in 1902 and 

 1903, for the American Museum of Natural History, which illus- 

 trated the development of the new drainage systems and the rein- 

 statement of old channels in regions which were most thickly 

 covered by the 1902 and 1903 eruptions of the Soufriere and 

 Mont Pele. 



In considering the subject of stone monuments, Mr. Wilson 

 confined himself to those found in Northern P'rance and South- 

 ern England, and especially to the great groups near Carnac in 

 Morbihau, and the well-known temples of Stonehenge and Ave- 

 bury, in Wiltshire. 



The monuments were divided according to type into several 

 classes, and a description of each of these given briefly with 

 their comparative ages and the probable purposes for which they 

 were constructed. Legends concerning these monuments were 

 cited, and mention was made of the superstition and veneration 

 with which they have been regarded by some of the more con- 

 servative peasants, causing the worship of stone to be kept up 

 to the present day in some remote districts. 



Before closing the paper, attention was called to the engineer- 

 ing skill required in placing and erecting some of the monu- 

 ments and the early age at which it made its appearance. The 

 paper was followed by slides showing photographic views of 



