xX President's Address 
(M‘Coy), the latter named after the donor of the specimen 
to the National Museum. With these a new Ancylocorus, A. 
Flindersii (M‘Coy), of the size and shape of the A. gigas of 
the Isle of Wight greensand, and a new Belemnite, B. diptycha 
(M‘Coy), closely related to some belemnites of the English, 
French, and German lower chalk, are found, confirming the 
original suggestions published in our Transactions of the 
lower cretaceous age of these beds. | 
Another important paleeontological addition to the geolo- 
gical formations previously known in the colony is Pro- 
fessor M‘Coy’s determination of the Devonian or old red sand- 
stone age of the Buchan limestones, in which among other 
Devonian fossils Spirifera levi costa and Placodermatous fish 
occur. 
As a subject allied to the branch of science I have just 
alluded to, I will call to your remembrance a somewhat 
animated controversy, both inside and outside these walls, 
which took place about two years ago, concerning some 
myological and other typical distinctions between man 
and the apes. Professor Halford’s paper on the subject is 
printed in your Transactions. A great writer on this and 
_ kindred subjects, Professor Gratiolet, of Paris, who died early 
in 1865, has given his opinion against Professor Huxley’s 
views, and therefore, in confirmation of some of Professor 
Halford’s conclusions. He says :—‘‘ The anatomical exami- 
nation of the chimpanzee reveals the most profound and 
really typical differences between man and the most ele- 
vated apes.” He further states :—‘The facts upon which I 
insist permit me to affirm, with a conviction founded on a 
personal and attentive study of all at present known, that 
anatomy gives no grounds for the idea, so violently defended © 
now-a-days, of a close relationship between man and ape. 
One may invoke in vain some ancient skulls, evident 
monstrosities, found by chance, such as that of Neanderthal, 
