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aided by the admirable reports of the meetings in the news- 
papers from the pen of our Hon. Secretary, I trust you will 
not think I am presuming in making a departure from the rule 
observed by my predecessors. I now propose to take up a 
subject, and to give you 
A SLIGHT HISTORY OF FLINT IMPLEMENTS 
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO OUR OWN 
AND ADJACENT AREAS. 
After seeing the Rev. D. Royce’s fine collection—of which 
I have made mention in the early part of this address—and 
the beautifully-worked specimen shewn to the Club by Mr 
Colchester-Wemyss at the Westbury Meeting, I determined to 
obtain all the information in my power of their occurrence in 
the Severn area up to Worcester, of the numerous tributaries 
of that river, and of the high ground of the Cotteswolds and 
the hills west of the Severn. 
The following are the brief references in our Proceedings 
to Flint Implements :— 
When the Club met at Apperley Court in 1860, Mr John 
Jones mentioned the discovery of mammalian remains by Dr 
Falconer in a Cave near Palermo, and reference was made by the 
Rey. W. 8. Symonds and Sir W. Guise to the occurrence of flint 
implements in the gravel of the Somme by M. Boucher de 
Perthes; a short paper by Mr John Jones in Vol. IIT. page 97, 
“On some Flint Instruments, and the geological age of the deposit 
in which they were found upon Stroud Hill;” a paper by the late 
Mr George Playne in Vol. V., ‘‘ On the early occupation of the 
Cotteswold Hills by Man,” in which there is a plate at page 
209 of ten worked flints, most of them found in the fields 
adjoining Hazlewood Copse Camp, and he mentions that Flints 
are scattered over the whole surface, a district of five square 
miles, having the village of Nailsworth as its centre. 
Also, in Vol. V., page 271, is a short paper by Mr W. T. 
Thiselton Dyer “On some Flint-flakes from the Valley of the 
