48 REV. I). GATH WHITLEY, PRIMEVAL MAN IN BELGIUM. 
pottery, tailoring, jewellery; and knows something of that great 
future which lies on the other side of death. 
We shall, I think, be of opinion that, in view of the mistakes 
made by a scientist so eminent, and justly eminent, as Sir Charles 
Lyell, it becomes scientists to be modest. Science is necessarily 
progressive. Scientific facts are permanent ; but scientific theories 
have no finality, they are provisional only ; they are always open 
to revision and modification. In this they differ from the state- 
ments of Holy Writ, which are unchangeably and eternally true. 
M. L. Rouse, Esq., B.L. — The fascinating paper that we have 
just listened to shows in the first place that the relics of Paleolithic 
Man in Belgium are found in a pebbly bed under a wide-spreading 
clay; and the fact that this clay throughout Belgium and North- 
Eastern France covers hill and dale like a skin.* Akin to these 
discoveries in the relative position of the relics is the one made 
five years ago at Ipswich, and worked at by Miss Nina Layard and 
her friends, as told by her at the British Association’s meeting in 
Cambridge in 1904. The Palaeolithic tools were covered with the 
clay of the Suffolk plateau to an average depth of ten feet ; and, as 
Sir John Evans certified, they all lay upon the bed of an ancient 
lake. Thirty inches below them in coarse gravel were found bones 
of rhinoceros and other animals ; and twelve feet lower still was the 
glacial boulder clay ; and, in the discussion that followed Miss 
Layarcl’s account, Professor Boyd Dawkins stated that every 
deposit of Palaeolithic remains which he had seen in Britain lay 
above the glacial formations. 
Mr. Gath Whitley has to-day presented us with facts that will 
be interesting to many. Some of us already knew that the 
Palaeolithic (or antediluvian) folk were artists who could scratch 
upon bones good pictures of animals, indeed the late Sir William 
Dawson, in his “ meeting-place of geology and history,” had told us of 
a necklace made by them, composed of large teeth upon each of which 
was the figure of a different animal. And then — what do their 
statuettes themselves reveal, but that they were a well-clad people. 
* I entertain much doubt regarding this wide-spread pebbly clay in 
Belgium. Having visited more than once the Liege district I do not 
recollect having noticed this wonderful deposit. — Ed. 
