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THURSDAY, MAY 16ru, 1907. 
EXTRACT OF A PAPER ON 
Pigmny Flint Implements Found near 
Brighton. 
BN: 
Ma. EH. 5. POMS. 
IVE years ago I had the pleasure of reading to this Society 
a paper on “Some Prehistoric Camping Grounds near 
Brighton,”’ and, as that paper was stated to be but a preliminary 
report of my local investigations, it may be thought that I am 
about to occupy you with a further instalment of the same 
subject. Let me assure you that this is far from my intentions. 
I may say, though, that I and my friends have paid considerable 
attention to our local camping grounds since the reading of my 
paper, and, as we are being constantly rewarded with interesting 
discoveries and new material, the period for the presentation of 
anything like a final report to this Society gets more hazy every 
day. In many respects it seems fortunate that we are thus 
unable to trouble you with anything but preliminary or imperfect 
reports on our periodic discoveries. 
During the course of the evening brief allusion to the local 
camping grounds will be made ; but my present subject has to 
do with discoveries markedly different to those brought before 
you on the last occasion. ‘‘Pigmy Flint Implements found 
near Brighton” is the subject for this evening, and the first 
thing I have to say in connection with them is that the word 
‘‘Piomy ” is applied, not to the prehistoric people who made and 
used them, but to the implements themselves. When you are 
told that some of these little tools are so small that 64 taken 
together weigh less than half an ounce, I think you will agree 
that they thoroughly deserve their name. 
In the foregoing slides we have seen the simple artificial 
chip and the various kinds of flake instruments commonly found 
with the larger stone tools and human remains of prehistoric 
man in many parts of the world, and their use has been made 
pretty clear owing to the same types having continued to be 
made by savage tribes down to the present day. 
