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well as the nature of the Barking Celt showed that it had not come out 



of undisturbed graved. The speaker then said that he, like Mr. 



Wallace, often felt considerably puzzled with some of the gravels of 



Essex, Middlesex, and Kent ; and if the Dartford gravels were really 



marine, as stated by Mr. Walker, it must still be remembered that 



implements made by primaeval man, and of the same immense age as 



the Dartford marine gravel itself, were found deeply embedded in that 



matrix. Mr. Smith said that while Antonio Brady had been chasing 



the Mammoths with such admirable success, he (the speaker) had been 



hunting for the works of those remote primaeval men who long ages 



ago lived in Essex as companions and hunters of these huge beasts. 



He gave a list of objects he had lately secured from a small piece of 



sewer excavation through gravel on the west side of the Lea, Lower 



Clapton. This list included among many other bones, the greater part of 



one bone of a Mammoth's leg, four fine Palseolithic implements of flint, 



many "flakes," a large number of shells of land and fresh water 



Mollusca, carbonised leaves, and small branches of trees and pieces of 



drift-wood. He had also found a very large pebble of Grey Granite 



in the Lea sands at Shacklewell ; and he had seen disinterred from the 



bottom of the 'gravel at Hackney a boulder of trap rock weighing 



i^cwt. An immense block of sandstone was found at the same place 



weighing between 4 and 3 cwt. Mr. Smith gave it as his opinion that 



these great stones v/ere probably brought down in very remote times 



from the North on Icebergs, and Vv^ere dropped by the melting ice in 



the positions where now found. 



Some little time was spent in examining the various objects, and 

 commenting thereon, and about nine o'clock the members separated, 

 well pleased with their first visit to the Mammoth's grave in the 

 ancient clays and sands of Primeeval Ilford. 



[The Editor has endeavoured to give as clear an idea as possible, in 

 a condensed account, of the statements of the various speakers respect- 

 ing the many difficult questions raised during the afternoon's discussion. 

 He thinks it, however, right to add that Sir Antonio Brady has since 

 expressed his firm belief in the genuineness of the works of Palaeolithic 

 humanity exhibited at the meeting ; and Sir Antonio further remarks 

 (referring to Mr. W^orthington Smith's criticisms), " if manufactured 

 by designing workmen more would probably have been made, whilst 

 mine are the only specimens known to exist."] 



Saturday, August 28th, 1880. — Ordinary Meeting, 

 The Ordinary Monthly Meeting was held at the Head-quarters, 

 Buckhurst-Hill, at 7 o'clock, the President in the chair. The minutes 

 of the meeting at Ilford were read and confirmed, and the following 



