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of flint half-an-inch to one inch in diameter, Mr. Stirrup said 

 it was doubtful as to what use they could have been put, as they 

 were too small to he handled by man for any practical purpose, 

 The late M. Gabriel IMortillet had suggested that similar frag- 

 ments were the work of some precursor of man of simian origin, 

 e.g , an intelligent anthropoid ape. 



Mr. Stirrup exhibited a work by M. A. Thieullen, con- 

 taining figures of types of flint implements found in the valley of 

 the Seine, which types resembled in all points most of those 

 exhibited by Mr. Darbishire. Mr. Stirrup took exception 

 to the use of the term " eolithic " in connection with these 

 Kentish implements, as liable to lead to misconception on the 

 Continent, where the term had been employed for upwards of 

 20 years to describe implements from the true Tertiary strata. 



The President, Mr. Hoyle, and others took part in the 

 discussion. 



\J\Iicroscopical mid Natural History Section.'] 



Ordinary Meeting, October 21st, 1901. 



Charles Bailey, F.L.., President of the Section, in the Chair. 



The President exhibited a foot-length example of a branch 

 of the lace-bark tree {Lagetta lintearta, L.) from the West Indies. 

 The woody portion of the stem had been removed, leaving the 

 bark intact at the lower portion of the stem ; above that portion, 

 the outermost layers of the bark had been removed, leaving the 

 white bast-layer intact. By soaking the bast in water, the various 

 layers separate from each other like the leaves of a book, and 

 the bast fibres are seen to cross each other as in a woven cloth, 

 or in lace — hence its name of lace-bark or gauze tree. The tree 

 which produces it when fully grown is as thick as a man's leg, 



