448 The American Naturalist. [May, 
admission that he was sufficiently clothed to resist the cold, if so, he must 
have possessed fire and shelter, all of which would require intelligence. 
It cannot be denied that with such weapons as he possessed, he success- 
fully attacked a fauna more powerful, and presumably more ferocious, 
than any now known to man. Man cracked the bones of these ani- 
mals, and had, it is asserted, a particular shape of spoon with which to 
extract the marrow, yet it is seriously argued that man in a cultural 
state such as indicated, had not learned the art of rubbing one stone 
against another in order to give it a cutting edge, but did rub one 
piece of ivory on a stone to smooth it for the reception of an engraving 
on it of a mastodon. Ivory is little at all softer than certain of the 
stones from which the so-called Neolith was often made. My experi- 
ments and my reason and every hour’s work I have done, convince me 
that with our present data no one has the right to divide the stone age 
into a chipped and polished age, much less to divide the chipped age 
as has been done. The argument has no reliable evidence to support 
it. 
I am sure I will be judged leniently when I claim that an intelligent 
study of archeology depends for its value upon some different classifi- 
cation than now sustains it. 
Whether such classification can be made upon some such basis as was 
laid down twenty years ago by Prof. Otis T. Mason, or (if the classification 
is to be confined to stone implements alone,) whether that of DeMortil- 
let or of Holmes will develop in the most valuable hypothesis, I cannot 
say. Iam inclined, however, to believe in that of the latter, if there » 
added to it an arrangement to study the handles of implements, the 
development of attachment of the same, and the rapidity with which 
they may be worked, for the working part of most implements show 
little change in form from the earliest known. J. D. McGuire? 
Professor W. Boyd Dawkins on Paleolithic Man in Europe 
—How much Prehistoric Archeology leans upon Paleontology om 
recently been shown by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins (Journal of the An : 
Inst. of Grt. Britain and Ireland, Feb., 1894, p. 242) in a com p 
by fossils and human remains, of the two great divisions of prehistorie 
time in Europe. He thus compares them: 
(a) The earlier period, called Paleolithic, now cold, now hot, 
Hippopotamus, Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Musk Ox, Reindeer, 
Hyena, Cave Lion and Cave Bear, with man a nomad hunter lacking 
all domestic animals, who chipped but could not polish stone, and 
? Of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
of the 
Cave 
