322 FroceediiKjs of the Uoyal Fhysiccd Society. 



He also mentions the tubercles and the distinctness of the 

 coloured circles, of which he says, " ceux-ci se conservent en 

 relief sur la peau." 



Explanation of Plate. 



Fig. 1. General view of the animal from the oral surface (nat. size). 



Fig. 2. Lateral view ofthe body and head (nat. ^ze). 



Fig. 3. The hectocotylised arm (magnified 3 diameters). 



Fig. 4. The radula (magnified 90 diameters). 



XXXII. On the Discovery of Late Glacial Implements in the 

 Rhins of Galloway. By William Gemmill, Esq., M.B., 

 CM. [Communicated by A. Macconnochie, Esq.] 



(Read 18th April 1883.) 



Five or six years ago Mrs M'Gaw of Severil, who has given 

 much attention to antiquities, gave me two flint implements 

 which she had found in the vicinity of her residence. In a 

 few weeks in the course of professional visits nearly a 

 hundred were collected between Creechan and the Mull of 

 Galloway. Later, when over a thousand chipped flints had 

 been gathered, and their aspects in different localities had 

 become familiar, it seemed strange that, if the current nomen- 

 clature of such relics were to be followed, and its implications 

 deemed correct, especially with reference to certain forms of 

 '' scrapers," '* saws," etc., then in some of the groups there 

 would scarcely be a single implement that had been a pro- 

 jectile; there would neither be arrow heads nor heads of 

 javelins, certainly a curious state of matters. Further, most 

 antiquarians would look upon the work on the specimens as 

 being chippings made by neolithic man. But those tools I 

 had seen that were undoubtedly neolithic, such as polished 

 celts, had been found in different localities from the ones in 

 which these merely chipped flints were. A line of inquiry 

 was thus started, in pursuing which I have handled not only 

 several thousands of flints chiefly from the parish of Kirk- 

 maiden, but others also from the parishes of Stoneykirk, Old- 

 Luce, Inch, Portpatrick, Leswalt, and Kirkcolm, and have 

 tracked out the chief localities in which they are found, 

 meantime taking note of such indications as could be obtained 

 regarding their relative ages. A rough general sketch of the 



