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The resemblance l)et\vcen the objects from tlio French caves and those still 

 made and used by the Esquimaux is very striking. Attention is directed to the 

 cast of a portion of the tusk (jf a mammoth found in the rock-shelter of La Mad- 

 elaine, Dordogne, upon which is traced in outline the animal (niamraoth) itself. 

 The specimen from which this east has been taken was discovered in May, 18G I, 

 by M. Lartet, M. de Verneuil, and the late Dr. Falconer. 



NEOLITniO PERIOD. 



Surface scries, {rubbed stone groiq).) 



Setting aside peculiarities in typo between the .earlier (archseolithic) flint 

 implements already noticed, and the later, (neolithic,) now about to be considered, 

 the difference in the mode of manufacture is remarkable. The former, without 

 exception, owe their shape wholly to the simple processes of flaking and chipping; 

 no instance of artilicial rubbing occurs upon the drift implements; whilst among 

 those belonging to the neolithic period a very large percentage, after having 

 been chipped into form, have been rubbed and polished with more or less care. 

 In the rulbedsione series are included those.arrow-heads, scrapers, drills, wedges, 

 hammers, and other objects, formed themselves for the most part by flaking and 

 chippingonly,butco«^cj»jjorar// with the rubbed hatchets. In this section examples 

 are shown from the neighborliood of Salisbury, from Weymouth, Icklingham, 

 Yorkshire, and elsewhere in England, and from various parts of Ireland. Some 

 nice specimens from Tan Hill, near Devizes, have been presented by Mr. Coombs, 

 of Stapleford. Many of the Yorkshire specimens were presented by Mr. Monk- 

 man, of Malton. Mr. Evans, F.R.S., of Hemel Ilempsted, has contributed a 

 series from the shell-mounds (Kjokkenmuddings) of Denmark, and Mr. Flower, 

 r.G.S., of Croydon, has given some from the shell-mounds of Hcrm, near 

 Guernsey. There is also an interesting series of specimens from some (as is sup- 

 posed) British })it-dwellings, near Salisl)ury, consisting of stone querns, flint and 

 bone scrapers, l)one-piercing tools, bone javelin-heads, clay pellets for slinging, 

 clay s})indle-whorls, pottery, and animal remains. For this collection the trus- 

 tees are indebted to Mr. Adlam, of Salisbury, without whose valuable assistance 

 the series could not have been formed. 



So)ne interesting examples of human-w'orked flint and jasper, from the East 

 Indies and South Africa, presented by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., are exhil)ited, as 

 are also some remarkable flint-cores from Scinde, presented by the Bedfordshire 

 Architectural and x\rcha?ological Society, through Mr. Wyatt, F.CI.S. In this 

 section are some nule flint tools, obtained from tlie neighborhood of Home, l)y the 

 late Rev. Prebendary Chermside, in whom the Blackmore ]\Iuseum has recently 

 lost a most valuable friend. Flint knives from Arabia, presented by Mr. Franks, 

 F.S.A., of the British Museum, and similar objects from various parts of France, 

 Belgium, and Denmark, are exhibited. 



rfddbaulcyi scries, {ruhhcd stone group.) 



This portion of the collection is very illustrative; it has been formed through 

 the extreme kindness of Admiral the lion, E. A. J. Harris, C.B., her Majesty's 

 minister at' Berne, who has obtained the valuable assistance of such eminent 

 Swiss archajologists as Dr. Keller, l^rofessor Jiiitimeyer, Dr. Lhlmann, and the 

 late M. Troyon. It is now well known that a pre-historic people drove 

 wooden piles into the beds of the lakes of Switzerland and other countries, 

 upon which a platform was ])]aced, and iqmn this platform huts were elected. 



In these huts these peoj)le dwelt, not for a month or two, but continiu)usly, as 

 appears to be proved by the presence of seeds of plants wliich ripen at various 

 (seasons of the year. 



These lake-dweUers cultivated wheat and barley, spun and wove flax, made 

 nets for fishing, while their tools (at the s])ecial stations represented in this col- 



