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ORDINARY MEETING, January 17, 1881. 
Rev. R. Thornton, D.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Life Member : — H. S. Bosanquet, Esq., London. 
Members : — F. Newth, Esq., Barnet ; Rev. E. Wells, M.A., Dunstable. 
Associates : — Rev. C. B. Brigstocke, M.A., Germany; G. W. Childs, Esq 
Philadelphia ; A. E. Longhurst, Esq., M.D., London ; Rev. E. S. 
Radcliffe, A.B., Australia ; H. Sandford, Esq., London. 
Also the presentation of the following works for the library : — 
“ Proceedings of the American Geographical Society.” From the scuiie. 
The following paper was then read by the author : — 
PLIOCENE MAN IN AMERICA. By James Southall, 
A.M., LL.D., of Riclimond, Virginia. 
A MONG well-informed persons opinion has undergone a 
great change within the past few years with regard to 
the antiquity of man in Europe. We presume that few now* 
attach any importance to the evidences for the antiquity of 
the race derived by the late Sir C. Lyell, Sir J. Lubbock, and 
others, from the ancient stone-graves, the objects found in the 
Danish peat, the shell-mounds of Denmark, and the lake- 
dwellings of Switzerland. It has been abundantly shown 
that the division by the archaeologists of the human period 
* Dr. Southall, in his reply, explains that recent exploration has thrown 
much new light on the evidences cited by these authorities. — E d. 
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