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existing uamcti species as those I aave meutioued in the case of 

 sprat and sardine, but would by inference throw light upon tishes 

 habits in nature, (where we cannot follow them) and elucidute 

 statements as to their modes of life, now freely made and accepted, 

 although in many cases these may be but mure hypotheses. 



My thanks are due and now acknowledged to my friends Mr. Howard 

 Vaughan, of London, and Dr. Marshall, of this town, who, bearing in 

 mind my requirtments, have ever been ready in assisting me by forwarding 

 specimens of fishes :hey thought might be useful. 



The plate which accompanies this paper is, in many respects, 

 unsatisfactory. The following are the chief inaccuracies : — 



The words male and female should bo beue;ith the lirst two examples 

 in Fig 1, the other is a lateral view. 



The Figs 16 and 17 are transposed, and the indentations of 16 

 exaggerated. 



The outline of Fig 19 not sufficiently smooth. 



22 should represent the otolith of the eel, but is really unlike 

 anything with which I am acquainted. 



Letters If S mean natural size. 



Fig 18 is a curiously unusual shape of the otolith of a young turbot. 

 They are generally more wing-shaped. 



VII. 



A NEOLITHIC "FIND" NEAR DOVER, 



BY 



Mr. W. T. ha yd on. 



The "find" was made in a field to the right of the Hougham road, 

 about half way between the parsonage and the hill upon which the wind- 

 mill stands. 



It was noticed during a period of continued drought, in the summer 

 of 1889, that on certain spots, the crop of lucerne fared badly and finally 

 died off. Upon digging into the soil to ascertain the cause, it was found 

 that in some places there was not more than about a foot of soil, and this 

 lay upon a vast quantity of- flints. Two men were employed to dig them 

 out, a work which occupied them nearly the whole winter. The stones 

 were used for road material. 



It was towards the end of January, 1890, that I first knew of the 

 removal of the flints — 200 or 300 loads had then, I believe, been 



