London, Aug, 31.
Arthur Keith in his president-jai address before the British Association at Leeds to-night on the subject of "Darwin's Theory of Man's Descent og it stands to-day," said that an enormous body of new yneo had accumulated in the past 56 years but the fundamental Darwin's outline of man's history remained unshaken, Sir Arthur declared that he was convinced that they could never be shaken. Man had been traced through fossil remains and stone implements backwards to the beginning of the pleiseocene period, at least 200,000 yea perhaps thrice that number, had even been traced into the earlier pliocene period, which had endured at least 250,000 years. All evidence vapported the conclusion that m: had arisen, as Lamarck and Darwi had suspected, from an_anthropoi ape not higher in the 2oologieal scale than the chimpanzee and that the date at which the human anthropoid lines of descent diverged Iny near the beginning of the still arlier miocene period. Ona modest scale of reckoning, that gave man. a respectable antiquity million years, gathered by anatomist physiologists and ps ists, Sir Arthur asserted, support ed the conviction that man's brain had Yoen evolved from the beam of the anthropoid ape and that in the process no new structure had been introduced and no new or strange faculty interpolated.
Replying to a vote of thanks, Sir Arthur announced that the Council of the Association intended to arrange for the purchase of Charles! Darwin's house and its surroundings, in Bromley, Kent, for the nation a8 a memorial to Darwin.—Reuter,
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