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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 2 April 1913, Page 8

On February 10 the Abbe lireuil completed a course .of - lectures: at University College,-Londoii,-on Palaeolithic Art. He is'one .of the. many French. l priests who distinguish themselves in - the study of the natural sciences, thus maintaining one of the fine traditions of their Church. Professor at ; the Institute of Human Palaeontology at Paris., ho has during the last twenty/years made extensive' explorations of the' cove dwellings of the . Stone Ago in Southern Franco ami-Spain,- ( extending his attention-ivithin the last few months to Bacon's# Hale in • South 1 Wales.. The conclusions drawn from j those explorations, received at first, with something..like derision in scientific cir- j cles, arc now almost universally accepted, i an destnblish remahablo, affinities hel.ween the cave-men of Europe and the now'.rapidly-disappearing. Bushmen of .South Africa. The lectures' - covered in brief, the wh()li> field of these \ discoveries, were limply illustrated, atid I were delivered in Trench to an' apprccialivo audience; . t The Ki'ifi and :Qucen of Denmark will < ,-isit England for five or six (lavs in • I line. . 1 .. Mr. W. .Tamos .Thomas, ccalowner, of 1 Vnysliii'. Illionddn, has' increased a gift )f 10,000 guineas' 10.. „CjC,750 for the. purwtb' i«f erecliiig; n. medical school in' t yuncdic.ii.wi.tk the, Welsh 'University „ .ellcge at Larditt« • . ' I