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the drift, and further back than the period of bone implements. If, 
therefore, we can find bone implements, we are not in Paleolithic 
times. (Hear, hear.) Preference has been made to instances on the 
Continent of Paleolithic engraved figures. I simply dispute their being 
Paleolithic for the reason that the definition given of the term “ Paleolithic” 
does not answer to them. We ought when we reach the Paleolithic period to 
have got further back than the age of bone implements ; but they are found in 
the Cresswell caves, and very distinctly in Kent’s Cavern, and also at Dor- 
dogne. When we have bone needles, bodkins, and other things all of bone, 
I cannot see how we can associate them with the Palaeolithic age. But give it 
what name you like — call it Palaeolithic if you please, — I would merely say it 
is such a Palaeolithic age as Dr. Fisher refers to when he speaks of one man 
being older than another, and not such a Palaeolithic age as has been defined 
by geologists. With regard to the question of iron implements in Cres- 
well caves Mr. Mello is right. The term does imply more than the 
evidence warrants. I should have said ironstone implements. I was 
justified in saying that they were wrought to approved forms. Professor 
Boyd Dawkins says of the Cresswell cave implements : — “Some of those of 
quartzite and ironstone were of precisely the same form as those of the river 
gravels of Brandon, Bedford, and Hoxne. They are identical with those 
found in France from St. Acheul, near Amiens.” Does not this imply 
that they were manufactured into forms of approved types ? I quite 
agree with Mr. Mello as to the desirability of getting our facts together 
rather than paying too much attention to theories ; but it must be 
borne in mind that I did not create the theory of the “ Antiquity of Man.” 
(Hear.) It was created for me, and I have come here to combat it. I have 
now to thank you all very much for the kind way in which you have received 
my paper. I can only hope it may result in a further consideration of the 
subject, and if in anything I have been inaccurate I shall be thankful to be 
corrected. At present, however, I feel strong in the position I took when I 
read my paper. (Applause.) 
The Chairman congratulated the meeting on the very interesting discussion 
that had taken place. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
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