PREFACE. 
XI 
of the Instituted members — the palaeontologist Professor 
Joachim Barrande — is held by him to show that there is 
no ground for the theory of the “ transmutation of spe- 
cies.” These remarks would be incomplete did we not 
include a reference to the last (1880) meeting of the “ Berlin 
Anthropological Society” at Lisbon, where the lately “ dis- 
covered evidences of the existence of tertiary man” were 
held by Professor Virchow, Dr. John Evans, F.R.S., and 
others, to be wholly unreliable. 
Finally, as regards the labours of men of Science ; their 
value has recently been demonstrated in a special manner by 
many remarkable discoveries, and it is to be hoped that ere 
long accurate scientific research, in all its branches, may 
receive greater encouragement both from the Government 
and the public. — Truth is only in danger from a want of 
knowledge. 
O 
F. PETRIE, 
Hon. Sec. and Editor. 
31 st December , 1880. 
