24 WILLIAM DALE, ESQ.;, F.S.A., F.G.S., ON PREHISTORIC MAN : 



scientific world, who I believe is almost a leading authority regarding 

 the bones of the skull — Mr. Emmett. I hope that all who are in- 

 terested in the subject will read that Paper, at the end of which is a 

 bibliography. I have protested in Sussex, and my opinion is here 

 confirmed, that the evidence has been insufficient to justify scientific 

 men in giving to this collection of bones that primary position 

 which has been assigned to them. 



May I remind you that the Evolution doctrine is a theory ? If 

 you keep that point clearly before you, and then weigh the evidence 

 for and against it, 3^ou may make some progress in investigation ; 

 but if you assume that it is absolutely proved, then I must bow my 

 head and enter a protest. This is a very serious matter, because 

 it leads many to undermine the authority of Divine Kevelation. 

 Therefore I suggest that, before permitting these bones to occupy 

 the position which many give to them, we look for more bones and 

 more implements. 



Mr. T. B. Bishop : I have pleasure in seconding the vote of thanks. 

 I have read Mr. Dale's paper with great interest, because the theory 

 of the evolution of Man has occupied me for some time, and I have 

 in the press a book, Evolution Criticised, which deals rather fully 

 with the difierent branches of the subject. 



Professor Arthur Keith's recent book. The Antiquity of Man, 

 gives details of all the discoveries that have been made, some sixty 

 in number, of skulls and skeletons, and other relics of prehistoric 

 man. In the great majority of cases the skulls are quite similar to 

 those of men of modern type, but there are about sixteen cases in 

 which the remains, chiefly those of the so-called Neanderthal race, 

 are alleged to show ape-like characteristics. 



Several of these latter have for a long time been looked upon as 

 missing links between the anthropoid ape and modern man, but 

 Professor Keith shows that the discoveries made during the last 

 ten or fifteen years, largely of members of the Cro-Magnon race, 

 prove that men of quite modern build lived so far back in the 

 Pleistocene period that the Neanderthals and others could not 

 possibly have been in their line of ancestry. Mr. Dale's paper quite 

 confirms this. 



Professor Keith now adopts another theory, and sup- 

 poses that far away in the Miocene period a humanoid stem 

 separated from the original animal stem, and that, later, in the 



