. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ' I:; r- i. ft"-' â 1'' 900 llEPOUTâ1884. leavinj? tlie detailed treatment of the topics raised to come in tlie more specialised papers and discussions which form tlie current business of tlic St'ctiou. Tiie term prehistoric, invaluable to anthropologists since Professor Daniil Wilson introduced it more than thirty years ago, stretches back from times iust outside
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. ' I:; r- i. ft"-' â 1'' 900 llEPOUTâ1884. leavinj? tlie detailed treatment of the topics raised to come in tlie more specialised papers and discussions which form tlie current business of tlic St'ctiou. Tiie term prehistoric, invaluable to anthropologists since Professor Daniil Wilson introduced it more than thirty years ago, stretches back from times iust outside the range of written history into the remotest ages where human remains or , or other more indirect evidence, justifies the opinion tliat man existed. Far hack in these prehistoric periods, the problem of Quaternary man turns on the presence of his rude stone implements in the drift gravels and in caves, associated w'th the remains of what may be called for shortness the mammoth-fauna. Not tn recapitulate details which have been set down in a hundred books, the pnint to be insisted on is how, in the experience of those wlio, like myself, have followed tlicm since the time of Boucher de Perthes, the eileet of a quarter of a century's researcli and criticism has been to give (Quaternary man a more and more real position. The clumsy flint pick and its contemporary niiunmoth-tootli have become stock articles in museums, and every year adds new localities where paheolitliic implements are found of tins types catalogued years ago l)y Evans, and in beds agreeing with the sections drawn years ago by I'restwich. It is generully admitted that about tlie close of the Glacial period savage man killed tlie liiifre maned elephants, or fled from the great lions and tigers on what was then foivst- clad valley-bottom, in ages before the later waterUow had cut out the present wide valleys 5(3 or 100 feet or more lower, leaving the remains of the ancient drift-heds exposed high on w
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