24 SEPTEMBER 1859, Page 1
The Meeting of the British Association has this year been
dis- tinguished by many points of interest, although the communica- tions and discussions have not generally been of so popular a character as in former years. Sir Charles Lyell has reported upon the discovery of fossil human remains, and some fossilized implements of war or chase, which would indicate for the human family an antiquity extending far higher than geological history has previously marked for it. And in the Andaman Islands has been discovered a working volcano—a fact which materially assists theory in grouping its experiences. The whole tone of the discussions on the subject of human antiquity indicated a de- cided progress in the casting off of preconceptions—a grand en- largement of scientific sincerity.
