KEY. D. GATH WHITLEY, PRIMEVAL MAN IN BELGIUM. 49 
In his Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford last June, Professor 
Ray Lankester in “ referring to the Emergence of Man, through 
material selection, stated that the Palaeolithic implements, though 
not improbably made 150,000 years ago, do not, any more than do 
the imperfect skulls occasionally found in association with them, 
indicate a condition more monkey-like than is presented by existing 
savage races,” Daily Mail, 17th June, 1907. The admission is most 
striking ; but the chronology is absurd. 
In the year 1863, Professor Faa de Bruns of Turin made a 
calculation that if the population of the globe had only increased at 
the rate that the population of France was then increasing — namely 
by P er annum, from the time when a single family started from 
the ark (which he puts at 2344 B.C.), it would then have amounted 
to 1,300 millions, the figure at which it was set in his time. (Quoted 
and confirmed by S. Moigno in his review, Les Mondes, for 1863 
pp. 516, 517.) 
Professor J. I;. Lobley. — The Pithecanthropus eredus, which has 
been mentioned in the discussion, was discovered in 1894, in Borneo, 
by M. Dubois, and is famous as being the oldest of the Primates yet 
known with the vertical axis of Man, and so has been called the 
“ missing link.” Implementiferous gravels are by no means confined 
to the bottoms of river valleys, since they often form terraces along 
the sides of such valleys, sometimes at considerable elevations above 
the present rivers which are thus shown to have cut down these 
valleys deeper since Man had first occupied them. 
Dr. W. Woods Smyth. — I have much pleasure in seconding the 
vote of thanks to the author of this interesting paper, and to 
compliment him on the great amount of information which he has 
compressed into a small compass. 
I beg, however, to differ from the writer in regard to his estimates 
regarding the man of Spy and the Neanderthal man. Professor 
Huxley’s words ought to 'be quoted, and areas follows: — “They 
were powerfully built, with strong, curiously curved thigh bones, the 
lower ends of which are so fashioned that they must have walked 
with a bend at the knee. The difference is abysmal between these 
rude and brutal savages and the comely, fair, tall and long-headed 
[i.e., high foreheaded] races of historic times.” The latter point in 
regard to the thigh bones is of the greatest significance. We may 
mention a fact here which has an important bearing upon these 
