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The other large group, called neoliths or surface implements, are 
found almost all over the world, in some remote parts of which 
they have been used down to historic times. 
He showed that while the neoliths vary inform to an extra- 
ordinary extent, having evidently been used for an immense num- 
ber of different purposes (exhibiting out of the museum collec- 
tions, examples of chisels, knives, saws, hammers, scrapers, arrow- 
heads, daggers, &c.) the palzeoliths on the other hand, from what- 
ever part of the world, were referable to one or other of two 
types, the object in view in the manufacture of which no one had 
yet satisfactorily accounted for. This similarity of forms from 
different parts of the world would have been more easily explained 
had these forms been obviously suited to some obvious want of 
the human race. 
He shewed also that in other ways the neolithic men excelled 
in skill their palzeolithic predecessors who never added to the 
hammer-chipping on their implements the fine work which distin- 
guishes the neoliths and which was apparently executed with the 
help of a point of wood or bone. Nor did the earlier race ever 
polish the whole or any part of an implement, 
While most of the implements exhibited were of flint, basalt, 
or some other kind of hard stone, some from Barbados were of 
the hard inner column or outer lip of the Conch-Shell (Triton), 
and it was explained that this peculiarity was a consequence of 
the absence of any suitable stone from this and a few other coral 
islands ; though the presence among the shell implements of 
other implements made of stone showed that by barter or other- 
wise the islanders were able to obtain supplies from other 
countries. 
Among the rarer exhibits were paleoliths from South 
Africa, including one found in the high level gravel behind Port 
Elizabeth. Also the two implements of paleolithic form from 
the neighbourhood of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A., which are 
among the very few authentic implements of that form which 
have been met with in the New World, though authorities still 
differ on the question whether such implements there are more. 
ancient than the surface implements which are met with in such 
quantities in many parts of the States, Canada, and other parts 
of the continent. 
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