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™^^'^S AT DOVER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Nov. 8.-Mr. Richard Kerr, E.G.S., exhibited a polished flint 

 weapon (a neolith) found at Shorncliffe. This very fiL 

 specimen of the handiwork of pre-histoJc Van 

 measures nine inches in length and weighs two poS 

 and three quarters It is of the long or chisel shaped 

 pattern and entirely free from blemish ^ 



Dec. oO.-Mrs. Elvery showed a stalactite from one of the Caves 

 of Gibialtar and some minerals from the Giant's Cause- 

 way among which were specimens of vesicular trap 

 with inclusions of Zeolite, &c ^ 



Captain McDakin noted some boulders weighing over 

 three pounds which had been thrown, during the late 

 edr of ''tht'"'' a distance of twenty yards ^from the 



1894. 

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Jan. 21.-Captain McDakin exhibited a fragment of Chalk 

 Grabble Hill and was of opinion that it had been 



wnTef '%'-°^^ '^"? °^ '^'^"^ P^^^'^l-^ recemented by 

 water containing carbonate of lime. ^ 



^■~SnSrnt^-P^''fi'° ^^' *"^^^ for examination two 

 volumes of original drawings of old Dover, executed bv 

 two generations of her family; also old engravings ^ 



Mr. Grimes showed a very rare and valuable "Battersea 

 enamel " representing Dover and the Bay. "^^""'^^ 



Mr' W^Tbl'^'*''^' ^^ 'Ti'^y '^ *^^ t°^^ Surveyor 

 Mr. W. Thomas, some of the best specimens of the 

 coins found in Biggin Street. 



Mar. 



