president’s address. 
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Bison, which is represented as possessing enormous shoulders, 
more bizarre in their size than those of his American cousin 4 
now nearly extinct. 
The so-called Heidelberg man — a human lower jaw bone — 
found in an old gravel bed in one of the German river 
valleys, is the oldest relic of man ’s skeleton that has so far 
been found in Europe, and is claimed to show by its form, 
a more ape-like moulding of the jaw than any now found 
in the human species. From this and other evidence from 
the caves of Belgium, remains lately found in England etc., 
it is claimed that the men of the Palaeolithic or early stone 
age in Europe, were of a lower intellectual standing than the 
present inhabitants, and as regards their culture, no more 
advanced than the rudest savages of the present time. 
We might revive useful work in this association by 
extending and broadening the work now carried on by 
William McIntosh, with occasional help from our Treasurer, 
that is establishing a summer camp such as was held in 
the closing twenty years of the last century. The sum- 
mer camps of that time were participated in by many 
members of the Society. It was the custom to have evening 
lectures at these camps, and class work directed by leaders 
during the day. About the end of the century this method 
of instruction was taken up in a more formal way by the 
summer school of science under paid teachers from the 
universities etc., which supplied more fully the want which 
our Society had attempted to fill and the holding of summer 
camps by this Society was discontinued. Now, however, that 
the Rummer school of science has become interprovincial, 
it may be desirable that our Society should resume its aban- 
doned enterprise of summer camps for the members generally. 
As I have now been on the managing board of this 
Society for over half a century, I feel that I should retire 
and give place to younger men, and finally ere I retire let 
me remind you again of the two movements which it appears 
to me would conduce to a more useful future and more pros- 
perous condition of your Society viz; — a broadening of its 
scope by entering the field of Local history and an expansion 
of the Summer camp on the lines persued a quarter of a 
century ago. 
