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Churn at Cirencester.” He mentions having shown the most 
presentable to Mr Franks, of the British Museum, who 
accepted a few of them as being of human manufacture, and 
selected examples for the Christy collection: and in Professor 
Buckman’s account of the British Tumulus at Nymphsfield. 
At page 188, Vol. III. of our Proceedings there is a drawing of 
three Flint-flakes which were found in the Tumulus. 
It is not my intention to go at length into the history 
of Implements, which are so fully described by Dr J. Evans 
in his exhaustive work on the “ Ancient Stone Implements 
of Britain ;” and “ Flint Flakes,” by Mr Stevens; numerous 
works by Professor Prestwich, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Sir 
John Lubbock, Sir C. Lyell, and other authorities. 
A brief account, however, is necessary; and as the history 
by Dr Evans is so clear, rather than make an imperfect para- 
phrase, I prefer to use his own words :— 
“It was in the year 1847 that M. Boucher de Perthes, of 
“ Abbeville, called attention to the finding of flint implements, 
“‘ fashioned by the hand of man, in the pits worked for sand and 
“ gravel in the neighbourhood of that town. They occurred in 
“such positions, and at such a depth below the surface, as 
“to force upon him the conclusion that they were of the same 
“ date as the containing beds, which he regarded as of diluvial 
“ origin. 
“Tn 1855 Dr Rigollot, of Amiens, also published an account 
“‘ of the discovery of flint implements at St. Acheul, near Amiens, 
“in a drift enclosing the remains of extinct animals, and at a 
“depth of 10 feet or more from the surface. From causes, into 
“which it is not now necessary to enter, these discoveries were 
“regarded with distrust in France, and were very far from being 
*‘ generally accepted by the Geologists and Antiquaries of that 
* country. 
“Tn the autumn of 1858, however, the late distinguished 
“paleontologist, Dr Hugh Falconer, F.R.S., visited Abbeville in 
“order to see M. Boucher de Perthes’ collection, and became 
“satisfied that there was a great deal of fair presumptive 
“evidence in favour of many of his speculations regarding the 
