8 The Eleventh General Meeting. 
was the first to direct attention to these flint implements, but he 
was totally mistaken in regarding certain forms of flints as artificial, 
and as representing gods, goddesses, birds, fishes, and all sorts of 
animate and inanimate objects. The majority of French and 
English geologists regarded those forms as purely accidental; but 
the fossil implements found in this district were undoubtedly the 
result of human art.. Mr. Cunnington exhibited a specimen which 
had been sent him by Mr. Prestwich, labelled by the late Dr. 
Woodward, of the British Museum, “Salisbury, 1846,” It was an 
admirable example, but differed from all others found at Salisbury, 
and he did not think that local geologists would recognise it as a 
local specimen. Instead of being encrusted with a thin white, or 
slightly yellow material, its original surface was preserved: there 
had been no oxidation, or drying of the surface. It presented, in 
fact, the appearance of having been made yesterday, by Mr. 
Stevens friend, “Flint Jack.” (Laughter.) It was, however, un- 
doubtedly ancient, and its original appearance might have been pre- 
served through being deposited in a river. He could not pretend 
to say to what age these implements belonged, but he hoped that 
by working steadily on, and by listening with great care to every 
word coming from Nature—by which he reverently meant God 
working in nature,—something might yet be learnt to elucidate some 
of the mystery of the past. (Hear, hear.) This wasa locality where 
such research could be carried on better.than in any other part of 
the country, and he sincerely hoped that his friends who had taken 
up the matter with such zeal and ability would yet be successful in 
their endeavours. (Applause.) 
The Rev. E. Duxe said, that living in the neighbourhood, and 
having constant opportunities of observing the course of the river in 
the valley in which his own house was situated, he could not help 
being struck with the peculiar formation of the various tributary val- 
leys running into the main one. He thought this had an important 
bearing on the question before them. If they examined an 
Ordnance map, they would observe that in South Wilts all the 
small valleys gently declined into the larger ones. The principal 
valleys were of considerable depth, the chalk cliffs rising 60, 80, 
