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thus so singularly resurrected from the lamber- rdom of oblivion. Ware it possible, he said, for One of the most interesting papers at the one of our pale lithic uncasters to sit in jalg- British Association's meeting at Southportment on the comparative merita of the two recently w Dr. R. Munro's "Mao as Artist civilisations, his verdict would probably bo N INTERIM DIVIDEND in account and Sportauan in the Paleolithic Period."" something like thiYou have utilised the of the year 1903 at the rate of Fifty the course of bis lecture Dr. Muraro ob- forces of nature to a marvellous extent, and Cents par Share (or, Five Par Cent on the Capital of the Company) will be payable at the rved that so long as homo sapiens was believed thoroby secured the means of greatly increasing HONGEONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, Hongkong, to occupy a higher platform in the organic the number of your fellow-creatoros but at the on and after MONDAY, the 30th instant, on world than other animals by virtue of his special came time you have multiplied the sources of Warrants to be obtained from the undersigned endowments no one apparently thought of look-disease and misery. The invention of money has Local Shareholders are requested to apply ating for evidence of his origin and history in the facilitated the commulation and transmission of the Company's Office for their Warranta.

The Dividend will also be payable at the obscure viefs of pre istorio times. But though rishes among a fow; but it has impo erished: HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, Changbai, this belief was modified about half a century ago the many and supplied incentives to frand theft, on presentation of Warrants there, on and after by the dextrins of organic evolution, still för a and all manner of crime. Patriarcholesta lis... the same date:

The REGISTER of SHARES will be long time no rational explanation was forth mants have given way to social organisatious governed by laws fouaded on moral sentiment nabil MONDAY, the 30th instant both days characterisics; and even now their origin and and ethics; but their by-prodeois are extreme inclusive, daring which poriod no Transfer of development woe among the most obscure luxury and extreme poverty. Hence, to support Shares will be registered.

problems within the whole range of authro- the weak and the zufortunater is no longer a mat. By Order,

pology. So long ago as 1893 he had, as presidentter of charity, but a moral obligation Notwith of the Anthropological Section of the Assoc-standing the size of your asylume, hospitals, and tion, advocated the hypothesis that the origin almshouses, they are always full and always of the higher mental manifestations of man were on the increase. You have formulated vrions primarily due to the attainment of the erect systems of religion, bat whether founded on the ulitude which, by entirely relieving the fore principles of fetichism, polytheism, or mon limbs of their former function as locomotive, otheism, they are all more or bsr permetad 1 on a new phase of existence in which dogmas. National sport as pretised with organs, afforded him the opportunity of enter with contradistory or controverted creeds aud intelligence and mech wid skill became the waspons of modern precision can only be governing fa to a. The result was the sab characterised as legalisel killing of helpless stitution for Nature's mess of defends and self-creatures. To shoot pigeons endlessly liberated press vation of a variety of implements, from a box at a mousured distaues, or to weapons, and tools made with their own bands; slaughter overfed pheasauta, or even to stalk and homes the subsequent well-being of those semi-domesticated deer driva do' the muzzle of a novel bipeds became dependens on their ability rifle-all, of course, within sight of a'laucheon to interpret and utilise the laws and free basket-is a poor sobstitute for the excite at of mature As time went on tasy began to and field ing leats of the chase in pale»lithio rougni- the value of reasoning as the source of times. With no better weapons than a spear, or inventive skill, and this resalted again in a

tance tipped with a poiz ed diat, ani aşmail· atandy increase of human intelligence, and dagger of bens or horn, we had, actiufrequently, brain-substunge. The attainment of, the erect to encounter in mortal combat the mimoth

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pestare and the consequent increas of in-rhinoceros, cave-beari or some other terce and NOBEL-GLASGOW EXPLOSIVES Leiligence produced mared effects in the hape and size of the skul, and therefor, for more on ss me hadical reasons, in the jaws and teeth There were thus two distinct lines and chin on which investigations into the past history of mankind might be profitably conducted, for just as the human skull, as compared with that of one of the higher ape, bad undergone striking changes, both in form and capacity, be fora reaching the normal type of modern civilised races, an, similarly, the artificial products of man's hands, showed a steady improvement in type, technique, and mechanism comcionsurate with his knowledge of the laws of nature, Indo-d the trail of humanity along its entire course was grown with the discarded wes

pons and tools which from time to time had to give way to others of greater efficiency These observations were necessary to show the nature and tras significance of the methods by which anthropo ogists had been enabled to prosecute their researches far beyond the limits of the historic period. The special subject of the discourse to llustrate these results, caid Dr. Mauro, consisted of some exceptionally interesting human relics chiody belonging to the later palm lithic period in Europe. They had been most abundantly found among the race of hunters | who calinary débris of a inhabited cves and rack-shelters in France, Switzerland, the South of England, and other parts of Europe. Among the most remarkable objects collected in those localities were representations of various unimala, carvol, and sometimes sculptured; on pieces of ivory, horn: bone, and stone. Dr. Munro by means of [3817 several fine lantern slides exhibited these specimens on the large orand. In exhibiting these slides he dwelt on their ago, and showed. that the time which had elapsed since the paleolithic artists and hunters lived embraced the entire duration of the historio iron, brenze, and neolithic ages, together with an interval of unknown length between the neolithic and paleolithio civilisations. Of the later discoveries of these human relies the rock- shelter of Bohweizersbad near Schaffhausen wa

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