THE PYGMY FERINT AGE IW 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
A ConTRIBUTION TO THE ETHNOLOGY or LINCOLNSHIRE. 
By Rev. AtFrep Hunt, M.A. 
‘The subject of my address as President of the Naturalists’ 
Union for the year 1907, is practically a New Subject, but concerns 
a very old period of Natural History. 
Natural History points back to the Creation of Man as the 
crowning development of Creative Power. No higher form of 
beings that we are aware of, have been created since Mankind. 
The study of Ethnology, or-the study of Races and Tribes of 
men, has in regard to our own County been largely neglected in 
the past. ‘To-day it is my privilege to call your attention to an 
interesting race of beings who have existed in our County, and left 
traces behind them of an unmistakeable character, and I venture 
to give them a title that will be clearly understood :—The Pygmy 
Race of Mankind in Lincolnshire. 
A generation ago scarcely any man in England or abroad 
seems to haye noticed the small diminutive ints which are now 
known to specialists as Pygmy Flints. Dr. Colley March, of 
Rochdale, Lancashire, seems to have been the first person in 
England to have noticed them and recorded his observations. 
Contemporaneously, the late Mr. A. C. Carlleyle of the 
Archeological Survey ol India, discovered many Pygmy Flints at 
Sohagi Ghat, on the Northern Scarp of the Vindhya Mountains 
and left notes of them. More specimens were found in the same 
district by the same person in 1880—1881. 
They were followed by my friends, W. H. Sutcliffe, Esq., of 
Littleborough, Lancashire, and The Rev. Reginald A. Gatty of 
