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



the world, from Sussex to China — quite as likely in the Far East as 

 in the West — how is it that their descendants do not exist, and how 

 is it that they became two distinct persons, Adam and Eve ? Dr. 

 Walter Kidd, an eminent zoologist, has shown that, whereas on 

 the arms the arrangement of hair is the same in the man as in the 

 ape, yet in the monkey all the hairs go straight down the back to 

 the tail, while in the man the hairs run upwards to the neck. Again, 

 on the head there is a circle, and in the loins there is a diversion of 

 the hair horizontally. 



Mr. Sidney Collett : I was particularly struck with the fact 

 that (as the lecturer tells us) there is no missing link in existence : 

 but, surely, in Evolution we should have some traces of the missing 

 link. If there is any truth in Evolution, I cannot understand the 

 meaning in Genesis of the words : " God created man in His own 

 image, in the image of God created He him ; male and female 

 created He them." 



Rev. John Tuckwell, M.R.A.S. : I think it was in 1895 that 

 Lord Kelvin, in a lecture here, controverted the long-period claim 

 for the existence of life upon the earth. In effect, he said to the 

 geologist : It is no use to talk of your hundreds of thousands of 

 millions of years. You cannot have more than 30 millions of years at 

 the very most. The earth could not have had life upon it more than 

 that. We are told that the whole geological strata — ^the part of the 

 remains of life which are known — amount to about 30, 45, or I think 

 the extreme limit is 50 miles. If you figure it out, you will find that, 

 reckoning 1 foot in 100 years, this only means 26 million years. 

 So we come pretty near to what Lord Kelvin says, and I do not think 

 we are justified in accepting hundreds of millions of years of man's 

 life. 



Lecturer's Reply. 



I am very much obliged for the way in which you have received 

 my Paper. It is a most difficult subject; and I had qualms about 

 tackling it at all. I will not refer to what the speakers have said, 

 except that I have been asked to explain what the Bishop of Birming- 

 ham meant. Well, he is a gentleman whom it is difficult to explain ; 

 but the reference was to a sermon in Birmingham Cathedral, and I 

 gathered that by " intertwining of God's creatures " he accepted the 



