A large and appreciative audience assembled in Upper Boylston Hall last evening, to hear Dr. Ward's second lecture on Anthropology. His subject was "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development," and it was treated in his customary clear and interesting style.

Dr. Ward, after briefly reviewing the preceding lecture, called the attention of his audience to the fact that there are two distinct theories relating to the origin of the world and the nature of things in general. The first, or older hypothesis, holds that an uncreated being formed the world with matter he created. He then made man and placed him upon it. The will of this omnipotent being is the force that set the world in motion and from which all energy springs. The second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries to account for the origin of the Universe by the laws of science; it is, in short, the "Nebular Hypothesis." The lecturer said that the modern theory was the one which he should adopt in his lecture.

According to this hypothesis, the earth's crust has been estimated to be from forty to two hundred millions of years old, and since organic life would have been impossible before the formation of this crust, we find the time that animal life has been upon the globe. Man may have existed between one and two millions years ago. To enable the audience to appreciate the length of time that human beings have lived, the lecturer said that it bore the same relation to what is commonly known as the historic period as the whole life of a man of seventy bears to his last three months But whatever may be man's age, his origin is still an open question.

Dr. Ward then passed on to the question of man's development, and gave a brief outline of the Darwinian theory. In conclusion the lecturer said a few words about the development of mind, and showed the distinction between instinct and reason.

President Eliot and Dr. Sargent were among the interested spectators.