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The triangular and crescentic forms are well shown in 
the accompanying plate, photographed from some of 
Carlleyle’s specimens in the National Museum, Dublin, 
by kind permission of Mr George Coffey. The plate 
does not include any trapezoidal forms, but three of 
the “ points” are fairly characteristic. The three larger 
specimens at the top of the left column are merely 
ordinary small implements, not in any way characteristic. 
The best locality in England for the special Indian 
forms is Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, where Mr Gatty has 
found large numbers of implements, even smaller than 
the Vindhyan ones, on the floors of old habitations in 
depressions of an extensive deposit of wind-blown sand. 
The neighbourhood of Scunthorpe is level for the most 
part, but a ridge of hills rises abruptly from the plain, and 
extends to Lincoln for a distance of thirty miles. The 
“pygmies” have been excavated at seven isolated sites, 
some in the plain and some on the hills. On the floor of 
one habitation Mr Gatty obtained considerably more than 
two hundred implements. A bed of peat, in which a 
horn and part of the skull of Los primzgenzus, the urus, 
have been discovered, underlies the sand. The “pygmies” 
are found only on the old floors under the sand, and not 
either in the peat or in the superincumbent sand. But, in 
the Pennine Hills, Dr Colley March obtained similar 
implements de/ow ten feet of peat. 
The difference in size between the Scunthorpe and 
Vindhyan examples of the four characteristic forms is 
shown in a table prepared by Mr Seidler as follows : 
Vindyhan Scunthorpe 
(smallest) , (smallest) 
1. Triangle (scalene) ie ie ine 50), ge ae 
2 Trapezoid we fg on seis Leen 
3- Rounded and pointed to" tse on 
4. Crescent . eee eee pe " ie " 
The aicee minute scale of the Scunthorpe examples 
