Abstract
ON Tuesday, Nov. 8,.the Huxley Memorial Lecture of the Royal Anth pological Institute was delivered in the room of the Royal Society Dr. A1eŝ, Curator of the Department Physica. Anthrology, U.S. National Museum, Wash- ington, who took as his subject “The Neanderthal Phase in Man.” For science, the subject of human evolution has long since passed from the realm theory or hypothesis into that of well-substantiated facts. Many important details, however, of this most wonderful and promising of natural phenomena remain to be determined or settled. One of the fore- most of these is the question of the Neanderthal stage of humanity, corresponding roughly to about the fourth fifth of the glacial time. From Huxley and Lyell to Sir Arthur Keith, Elliot Smith, Sollas, Marett, 13urkitt, and Karl Pearson, all the noted English, besides a host of Continental and even American anthropologists, have given this stage of human prehistory their earnest attention, without being able to reach final conclusions. The chief cause this has been the dearth of the skeletal remains Neanderthal man. Even with repeated finds, material in good condition was insufficient for what is needed.
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