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lithic iiiiplenients — large and heavy examples " were published 

 in 1888 [Ibid. II., 67, 97). In the same volume (p. 4) appear his 

 figure and description of tlie stone " pestle " from Epping Forest. 

 In 1898 he described and figured an implement made from a 

 stag's nntler found at Wormingford {Ibid. X., 310), this paper 

 having called forth a communicatio.i on the same subject by 

 Mr. Edward Lovett [Ibid. 351). Those who wish to form an 

 appreciation of Mr. VVorthington Smith from his humorous 

 side will do well to peruse his " Lepores Palaeolithici," read in 

 1884 and published in 1888 (Essex Naturalist II., 7). Among 

 other relics of early human workmanship referred to in our 

 publications attention may be called to Mr. H. Corder's paper 

 on " Stone Implements from the Neighbourhood of Chelmsford" 

 {Trans. II., 29), the paper on two pre-historic weapons from near 

 Epping (Essex Naturalist VIII., 162), Mr. Mothersole's 

 " Notes on some Relics of early Man in the Neighbourhood of 

 Chelmsford" {Ibid. X., 305) and Mr. J. P. Johnson's paper on 

 " Palaeolithic Implements from tho low-level Drift of the 

 Thames Valley, chiefly from Ilford and Grays" {^Ibid XII., 52), 

 this last paper having been already referred to under our 

 palaeontological contributions. Mr. Laver's note on the discovery 

 of Celtic urns at Colchester (Essex Naturalist III., 116) brings 

 us down to a later period. 



The human skeleton found during the excavations at the 

 Tilbury Docks, formed the subject of a paper read before the 

 Royal Society by Sir Richard Owen in 1883, and afterwards 

 published as a separate work (Van Voorst, August, 1884). The 

 distinguished author, who was one of our Hon. Members, had 

 come to the conclusion that this skeleton was of Palaeolithic age, 

 but at a meeting of the Club held on February 23rd, 1884, Mr. 

 T. V. Holmes and others expressed their belief that the evidence 

 of extreme antiquity was unsatisfactory {Proc. IV., Ixxviii.) and 

 a meeting of the Club, in conjunction with the Geologists' Asso- 

 ciation, was held at Tilbury on May 17th of the same year (^Ibid 

 'xcviii.) In a paper by Mr. Holmes, published by us in 1884 

 [Trans. IV., 135), the " antiquissimist " view (to use Mr. 

 Spurrell's expression) of the skeleton was disposed of. The 

 value of geological judgment in connection with archaeological 

 reasoning is well brought out in other papers communicated to 

 Club, such as Mr. Goodchild's " Notes upon some Mounds near 

 the Estuary of the Thames " (Essex Naturalist I., 210; and 



