360 DISCOVERY OF PALEOLITHIC FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN UPPER EGYPT. 



collection at Luxor. The objects themselves I brought to Paris, and at the request 

 of M. de Mortillet, who had charge of the anthropological department of the great 

 French Exposition of that year, I placed a selection from them on exhibition there, 

 for which a medal and a diploma were awarded to me. 1 I also presented some of them 

 at the meeting of the Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, held on October 10, 1878, at 

 which time I gave a brief statement of the circumstances under which they were 

 found. 2 M. de Mortillet has since spoken of my discovery in an article in the 

 "Revue d'Anthropologie," 3 copied into the " Materiaux," 4 and translated for the 

 " Popular Science Monthly " for April, 1879. I have myself also referred to it in an 

 article upon " The Fossil Man," in the " Popular Science Monthly " of last July, but 

 hitherto I have not published any designs of the objects. 



The late Dr. F. Mook, whom I guided to a locality where he found certain imple- 

 ments, has recently published a work, illustrated by several plates, in which he makes 

 the statement that I " have no objects differing from those figured by him ; " 5 but it 

 will be seen upon comparison that this is not the case. 



May not the discovery of this large quantity of flint implements, including several 

 of the most ancient type known, of which some threescore select specimens are here 

 delineated, be fairly claimed to have settled the vexed question of the existence of the 

 "stone age " in Egypt ? 



1 Catalogue Spec, des Sciences Anthrop., p. 80. 



2 Bulletin de la Soc. d'Anthrop., Trois. Ser., T. III., Juill. 1878, p. 339. 



3 Sec. Ser., Vol. II., Jan. 1879, p. 115. 

 * Vol. XIV. p. 44. 



6 Aegyptens Vormetallische Zeit von F. Mook, Wiirzburg, 1880, p. 27. 



