THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—With regard to a paper on the antiquity of man by Mr. Pattison, to which you refer in your last issue, may I be per- mitted to mention that when the essay in question was offered to the Victoria Institute, although Mr. Pattison is not a member, yet, acting in the spirit of the first object of the Society (directing the "impartial investigation" of subjects), the Council consented to name a day for the paper to be read and considered by the members and their friends? When it is published, with the dis- cussion, I believe the Institute will be given as much credit for impartiality, as when it sought to gather together those who held the moat opposite opinions on the flint-implement question. The truth in regard to these and many other philosophical and scientific subjects is what the world wishes to arrive at, and if
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