is nothing, and the split tiint does not always prove a knife. (Hear, hear.) 
There is one point that I think we ought always to bear in mind, and that 
is, that these different ages of stone, bronze, and iron may overlap one 
another, and they certainly do not follow one another everywhere in 
unvariable order. They may all have coexisted in the iron age. This is a 
curious fact, and I have in my possession a proof of it, 'in the shape of a 
stone knife, brought by a missionary from Rara Tonga, where it was used in 
the last generation for sacrificial purposes. (Cheers.) 
Dr. E. Haugiiton. — At this late hour I will not attempt to enter upon 
the large question of civilization taken in its widest sense. I would only 
mention, in relation to the finding of flint implements, that, on one occasion, 
in which a number of so-called flint arrow-heads had been collected and 
brought up for exhibition at various scientific societies, the explanation was 
given of how they came to be found by a person who had actually seen the 
flints fall from a height, and thus witnessed the making of them. They 
were flints embedded in chalk, at the top of a cliff, and they fell in such a 
way that many chipped into arrow-heads and other forms. With regard to 
Dr. Coleman’s criticisms, I think he was hardly fair in his remarks ; for 
when a member takes the trouble to give such a learned paper, he deserves 
the greatest consideration. There are many points in it which are suggestive 
and likely to be of much use ; for instance, that with regard to the fatal gift 
of beauty. Dr. Darwin, in endeavouring to establish the doctrine of 
evolution irrespective of design, speaks of the gift of beauty only in 
reference to females ; but we know there is beauty in flowers ; and it would 
puzzle the wisest logician to find any utilitarian reason for that. God need 
not have made them beautiful, and this is an argument against Darwin’s 
view, showing, as it does, that it is not merely the things which are gifted 
with increased endowments which thus receive an advantage over others, 
but that there is a real design in these endowments. 
The Hon. Secretary.— One word with regard to the existence of a 
paheolithic and a neolithic age in various countries, and its use as a measure 
of time. It is acknowledged by Dr. Dawson and other leading geologists, 
that in different countries the palaeolithic and neolithic ages were contem- 
poraneous, and it is still so in modern times, especially in some islands of 
the Pacific. 
The Chairman. — Perhaps I may be permitted to trouble you for a moment, 
in order to add a little bit of criticism to Dr. Coleman’s. He complained of 
the whole paper as containing many valuable facts, which, however, were not 
sufficiently connected. He had no objection to the ribs, but he lamented the 
want of vertebrae (laughter). I find fault, not with the body of the paper, 
but with the title. I protest against it, because I want it distinctly to be 
enunciated, as tlieview held by this Institute, that man was created civilized. 
Mr. D. Howard has already put that strongly, by insisting on the fact that 
there were two civilizations, material and moral ; I would go still farther 
