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undoubtedly of an Asiatic origin as demonstrated by other than 
anthropological evidence. He does not at all pretend that this similar- 
ity of character springs from Asiatic origin of the North American or 
that he descends directly from the Mongol. The object is to show the 
pe. of determining between hypothesis and fact. 
r was presented from Mr. Thomas Wilson on the subject of 
the Paleolithic Age in America. Mr. Wilson presented some of the 
paleolithic implements found throughout the United States and com- 
pared them with Chelléen implements and others of the paleolithic 
period of Western Europe—called attention to the similarity between 
the two, and explained at length the radical differences between these 
and instruments belonging to the Neolithic Age, and announces his 
conclusion that we may assume the existence of a Paleolithic Period in 
the United States. He says in a note that, as a working hypothesis, 
this conclusion is expressed under all reserve and subject to future 
discoveries; that it is intended to stimulate investigators to seek in the 
sands and gravels of the Quatenary geological Epoch for paleolithie 
implements, and that despite their want of beauty, to gather and pre- 
serve them for the sake of science. No argument is made as to 
whether they come from glacial or preglacial regions, nor is any 
attempt made from them to determine the civilization or culture of the 
Paleolithie Period, nor to find the man who employed or made these 
instruments. 
The Marquis de Nadaillac presented and read an extended review 
of the evidence on the subject of * The Earliest American." His 
origin he confesses to be entirely unknown, but he is of the opinion 
that he occupied the continent of America during the glacial if not 
during the pre-glacial period, and that he passed through two periods 
of cold. In saying this, however, he expressly disclaims any attempt 
to establish a parallel of the glacial periods of America and Europe. 
His paper was published at length in the Revue of Scientific Questions 
of Brussels in July, 1891, and is not to be found in the report of this 
Congress.  M.l'Abbe La Petitot, in discussing the paper of the Mar- 
quis, bore testimony to the quantity of remains of extinct fossil animals 
belonging to the Glacial Period which were evidences of having been 
used by the prehistoric man in the manufacture of his implements. 
Dr. Fernand de Lisle presented an elaborate paper of 30 or 40 pages, 
on the subject of the artificial deformation of the skull among Indian 
tribes of the northwest of America. He took the position alleging it to 
be borne out by anthropometry, and the experience obtained 
thereby, that the cranial capacity of the flat-head Indian after having 
