Given unlimited time, the first created animal or prototype 

 developed in every phase of life, crossed the impassable chasm 

 between the vertebrata and invertebrata, and ever evolving upwards, 

 rolled through fish, rodent, and monkey into man. The anthro- 

 pologist accepts Darwin's facts, but not all his fancies. Man's place 

 in nature, when viewed anatomically, is certainly next door to the 

 anthropoid apes — though Professor Huxley has done much to 

 bring about a reconciliation — still we don't fancy the relationship. 

 We claim the Bosjesman, but we repudiate the gorilla. He has 

 not our opposable thumb : his eye-teeth are like tusks, and his 

 brain is not half the size of the little Bosjesman's. It is cuiite 

 possible that some thousands of years ago the distance between the 

 lowest man and the highest ape was less than it is now, as forms of 

 both have become extinct. It is a singular fact that the large apes 

 of Asia, as the orang, and the large apes of Africa, as the gorilla 

 and chimpanzee, differ from each other by the same characters 

 which distinguish the men of these two continents, viz : colour and 

 cranium. The orang is brown and round-headed, like the Malay. 

 The gorilla and chimpanzee are black and long-headed, like the 

 negro ; yet it does not follow that Darwinism slioiiid come in and 

 allow these apes to climb to the top of our ancestral tree. Refer- 

 ring to the antiquity of man, Dr. H. said that marks of his presence 

 are now found prior to tbe glacial period, as flint implements and 

 weapons in the Upper Pliocene beds, and even some traces have 

 been discovered in Miocene. During the Quarternary period he 

 was contemporary with the extinct mammoth and cave bear, and 

 has, to our surprise, left us, in the debris of caves in France and 

 Belgium, carvings and sketches of the reindeer and other departed 

 animals much superior to the crude designs on Celtic monuments of 

 a vastly later date. Dr. H. gave an interesting description of the 

 earliest human crania (inferring the savage condition of man in the 

 mammoth and reindeer periods), also of the Danish kitchen middens, 

 tumulii, the Swiss lake dwellings, and the late researches among the 

 long and round burrows of England. In conclusion, he showed 

 that the three great race types of the present day were linked with 

 the distant past. The black, yellow, and white, or Negroid, Tur- 

 anian, and Caucasian. The Negroid type representing man of the 



