74 REV. PROF. G. F. WRIGHT, ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE 
graphy of the Nile Basin,” which (as the result of a twelve years 7 
survey by Captain Lyons and his accomplished staff) will be the 
standard work of reference for many years to come, that the Nile 
Flood and its variations depend upon the annual rainfall in the 
Abyssinian Highlands, and not upon any periodic overflow of the 
lakes of Central Africa (p. 62). But these are incidental matters, 
and do not detract from the solid value of an otherwise excellent paper. 
From Mr. Henry Proctor, F.R.S.L., M.R.A.S. : — 
In Professor Wright’s paper on “ The Influence of the Glacial 
Epoch upon the Early History of Mankind,” he speaks of centres of 
high civilization which existed on the earth ten thousand years ago, 
which is far anterior to the time which the Bible assigns to Adam. 
But in this connection it is important to note that the Bible nowhere 
speaks of Adam as the first man, for it is clearly evident that what 
is called the Elohistic account of creation in the first chapter of 
Genesis, is quite distinct from the Jehovistic narrative of the advent 
of Adam contained in the second chapter. 
The differences, indeed, are so great that it is difficult to imagine 
how it could have been believed so long that they were merely two 
versions of the same account of creation. 
For in the first chapter we see that men and women are created 
(bara) without specifying the number, whereas in the second 
account it is first one man only, and subsequently one woman, who 
are formed (asah). In the first chapter they are to occupy the 
whole earth : to rule, subdue and replenish it ; and in the second 
chapter, the one man Adam is to occupy Paradise, a garden 
specially prepared by God — “ Eastward in Eden.” To Primeval 
Man every tree and herb is granted without restriction, but to 
Adam, one tree, the tree of knowledge, is forbidden on pain of 
death. Primeval Man was not restricted to any particular place ; 
all the fruits and animals of the earth were his, by right, as well as 
the fishes of the sea. He probably lived, according to the geological 
evidence, in a similar manner to that which we find the aborigines 
living now, not tilling the soil, but living by hunting and fishing, 
and on the spontaneous produce of Mother Earth. But, on the 
other hand, Adam was specially formed and cared for, and specially 
restricted. God breathed into him “ nishmath Khayyim ” — the 
breath of lives, a portion of God’s own life, so that he would have 
