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interesting, as the rocks from which they were 

 extracted can be seen in the neighbouring cHffs. 



One of our members, Mr. Dotchon, has lent to the 

 museum for exposition, along with a comb inscribed 

 with Runic characters found in this quarter, a variety 

 of ancient British implements and objects from his 

 valuable collection, the fruits of his own researches 

 in the parts about Whitby, chiefly in former years. 

 They belong to the class of arrow points, spears, 

 saws, drills, and sharp edged flakes or knives of flint, 

 with celts of stone, beads of jet both ball and barrel- 

 shaped. Also glass beads streaked in different 

 colours, deemed by some to be Druidical, but which 

 more probably, are due to a period later than the 

 term will imply. Here among the lias fossils, we 

 doubtless take the lead, .but in those relics of a 

 people's art of the kind enumerated, which mark the 

 occupancy of a place in pre-historic times, our museum 

 is deficient ; and the surprise is sometimes expressed 

 that so little has been obtained to which so much 

 interest is attached, as the yield of the hottes or grave- 

 hills and other earth works with which this neigh- 

 bourhood is surrounded. 



In April last, communications were received from 

 the South Kensington Science and Art department 

 in connection with the popular educational move- 

 ment, for forming classes in the Whitby district, when 

 arrangements were made for our Society's super- 

 vision of the same. An examination committee with 

 Mr. Martin Simpson as secretary, was then appointed, 

 and their services continued during the space of the 

 session. Lieut. Col. H. Wray, R.E., came to preside 

 at this the first meeting of the candidates, and those 



