52 PAL.^OLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THAMES VALLEY. 



Committee, dated 31st January, 1901, the conclusion of the 

 matter is thus alluded to : — 



" The Essex Field Club, who, with the consent of the Corporation, are 

 the custodians of the exhibits in the Museum, asked us to provide a room for 

 the Curator, and agreed to contribute /50 towards the cost. To this we 

 assented. We have now to report the completion of the alterations and 

 additions to the Lodge at a total cost of /ijOoS i6s. 8d., less the /50 provided 

 by the Essex Field Club. The restorations have given great satisfaction, and 

 the Museum is now in course of re-arrangement, not only in the Banqueting 

 Room, where it has existed for some years, but also in the renovated Oak 

 Room on the first floor, to which it corresponds in dimensions. 



" We have also the pleasure to report that the old Tapestry is being 

 cleaned and renovated with very beneficial result." 



The modifications in the plan of the Museum necessitated 

 by the desire of the Committee that no tall cases should be 

 placed in the centres of the rooms, are explained in the report of 

 the meeting held on December 8th last (Essex Naturalist, xi., 

 pp. 300-303). The building is now open to the public so that 

 the renovated rooms may be inspected, but a notice has been 

 issued by the Curator pointing out that the museum is in course 

 of re-arrangement. The old cases are being altered and new 

 ones fitted by Mr. Chiswell, of Chingford. The work will be 

 pushed on during the autumn and winter, and it is hoped that 

 the formal re-opening of the museum may take place in the 

 spring of 1902. 



The most grateful thanks of all well-wishers of the Forest 

 will be given to the Corporation of London for this careful 

 restoration of one of the most precious buildings in the district, 

 and members of the Club as well as naturalists generally will be 

 pleased in the possession of two such excellent rooms for the 

 museum as those now devoted to the purpose. 



PALAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THE 

 LOW-LEVEL DRIFT OF THE THAMES 

 VALLEY. 



CHIEFLY FROM ILFORD AND GRAYS, ESSEX. 



By J. P. JOHNSON. 



At a meeting of the Essex Field Club held on January 26th, 

 igoi, I described some flint implements which had been obtained 

 from the recent excavations on the site of the famous Uphall 

 Brickyard, Ilford, Essex. Owing to the comparative rarity of 



