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durance, and of the virtue and faithfulness of the women. On 
the other hand, his eyes were fully open to the disturbing element 
of the encroaching superior race. The various schemes for meet- 
ing this difficulty are also considered, and wise suggestions made 
for their adjustment. 
DAWKINS ON THE ANTIQUITY OF Man.—In the course of his © 
address before the British Association, on the present phase of 
the antiquity of man, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins took the ground 
that the Trenton River stone implements of New Jersey were con- 
temporaneous with those of the River Somme in France, while he 
did not accept the Pliocene age of man in California, claimed by 
Whitney and others. He thus concludes his interesting address: 
“It remains now for us to sum up the results of this inquiry, in 
which we have been led very far afield. The identity of the im- 
plements of the River-drift hunter proves that he was in the same 
tude state of civilization, if it can be called civilization, in the Old 
tothe same hour, It is not a little strange that his mode of life 
should have been the same in the forests to the north and south of 
the Mediterranean, in Palestine, in the tropical forests of India, 
and on the western shores of the Atlantic. The hunter of the 
_ Teindeer in the valley of the Delaware was to all intents and pur- 
seid the same sort of savage as the hunter of the reindeer on the 
k nks of the Wiley or of the Solent. It does not, however, fol- 
=e eat this identity of implements implies that the same race of 
_ Men were spread over this vast tract. It points rather to a pri- 
“~ and from this the river-drift man found his way into 
Fegions where his implements occur. In India he hole 
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