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Mr. Holmes afterwards embodied his observations on ancient wooden 

 water-pipes in a paper which will be printed in the Essex Naturalist. 



Mr. J. Chalkley Gould exhibited some pottery and coins from the 

 Romano-British Settlement at Chigwell, Essex, which he had obtained in 

 continuation of the series of relics from that spot already exhibited in the 

 Epping Forest Museum. Mr. Gould made some remarks on these 

 specimens which are given in the "Museum Note" in the present part 

 {ante pp. 238-40.) 



The President said that they were all much indebted to Mr. Gould for the 

 persistence and success with which he was watching the excavations at 

 Chigwell. He also expressed his satisfaction at finding Mr. Gould inclined to 

 deposit all the specimens in the Club's Museum at Chingford. It so 

 commonly happened that relics of the kind got dispersed in private hands, 

 and the evidence which they might afford was practically lost. All such 

 objects should be carefully preserved, registered, and brought, as it were, to a 

 focus in some local Museum. 



The President exhibited and presented two or three fashioned flakes from 

 Sherringham, Norfolk. He had found and kept these, not for any intrinsic 

 value, but he was unaware whether worked flints had hitherto been found at 

 Sherringham, and therefore it would be well to preserve these. 



The Secretary said that Mr. Seton-Karr had recently sent to him a 

 set of Stone Implements of Palaeolithic type, found by himself in Somali- 

 land, Eastern Africa, with a request that the Club should select six 

 specimens for the Museum and distribute the remainder among various 

 English and Continental Museums named by Mr. Karr. The Secretary 

 exhibited the whole set of 38 implements. Mr. Seton-Karr had described his 

 specimens in Journ. Aitth. Inst., vol. xxv. (1896) p. 172, pi. xix.-xxi. Brit. 

 Assoc. Rep., 1895, p. 824. And Sir John Evans had more recently (Proc. Royal 

 Society, vol. Ix. (1896) p. 19) called attention to this subject (see also Evans' 

 Ancient Stone Implements, 2nd Ed (1897) p. 653.) Sir John remarked on the 

 identity of form of the implements with those found in the Pleistocene deposits 

 of North-western Europe and elsewhere. 



Mr. Cole also exhibited a collection of various stone implements previously 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. Seton-Karr. 



Mr. F. W. Reader made some extended remarks on these specimens 

 which will be embodied in a " Museum Note " in a future part of the E. N., 

 and moved that a vote of thanks be sent to Mr. Seton Karr for those welcome 

 contributions, which had so greatly enriched the Club's collections. 



Mr. Charles H. Read, F.S.A., remarked that these implements certainly 

 very closely resembled the Palaeolithic types found in Britain and on the 

 Continent, but he urged caution in assuming that they were actually of 

 Palaeolithic age. So far as he knew, there was absolutely no geological 

 evidence at present forthcoming upon which to base accurate conclusions as to 

 the age of these implements. 



The vote of thanks to Mr. Seton-Karr was carried unanimously. 



Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., communicated a note on the occurrence in 

 Epping Forest of Amanita citrina, a species new to Britain. And he also sent 

 for the Museum an original coloured drawing of the species (Mr. Massee's 

 note appeared in the last part, ante p. 129.) 



