50 REV. D. GATH WHITLEY, PRIMEVAL MAN IN BELGIUM. 
Primeval men. Sir Wm. Dawson has pointed out that the mammals 
of the Tertiary exhibit a shortening of the brain as well as increase 
of size in the later Tertiary and Quaternary Ages. Now, this is 
exactly what has taken place in the brain-box of men. Here is a 
photograph of the skulls of the man of Spy and the Neanderthal 
skull, with the skull of the Pithecanthropus erectus below, and a 
skull of the modern European above. The shortening of the 
dolichocephalic shape in the modern skull is manifest, a feature 
shared by the man of Truchere. This is convincing evidence of the 
man of Truchere being of a later date. These races could only have 
been synchronous in the sense of their overlapping each other at either 
end of their racial histories, as is seen in all decaying and rising 
races of organisms. Observe, in round numbers, the capacity of the 
skull of the modern man is 1,500 c.c., the skulls of Spy and Neander- 
thal 1,200 c.c., while the Pithecanthropus erectus is 1,000 c.c., and the 
highest ape reaches 500 c.c., the monkey 250 c.c. Surely we have here 
evidence of progressive evolution. 
The points relating to the interest which the Victoria Institute 
has in view are important, and have formed the subject of a com- 
munication of mine to this Institute. The men, male and female, 
of Genesis 1, were evidently a pre- Adamic race, from which no doubt 
Adam was derived. By no torturing of Scripture can you make the 
“ female ” of the first chapter the Eve of the second. Because the 
female of the first chapter is on the open field of Nature, where 
Eve was not until after the fall, which event cannot be placed in the 
sixth day, which concluded with all things being very good. Again, 
the immense skull capacity of these early men, compared with that 
of the modern man, is an evidence of some deteriorating element 
having entered the human race at an early date, and points distinctly 
to the fall. 
I am glad that Mr. Gath Whitley adduces evidence of the 
Noachian Flood, in which he has the support of the late Sir Joseph 
Prestwich. 
Colonel Hendley, who had taken the second chair, then put the 
vote of thanks, which was carried unanimously, and the meeting 
separated. 
