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Mr Evans, when on a visit to Christchurch (14th 

 June 1886), was unsuccessful in finding flint imple- 

 ments on the coast, and was compelled to buy. A 

 rhyme ended a letter to his invalid friend : 



The annexed receipt may be of use to you. I hope you are 

 better. With kindest regards, yours sincerely, JOHN EVANS. 



HOW TO OBTAIN FLINT IMPLEMENTS AT HORDLE. 



" Geologists who go to Hordle, 



Hoping flint implements to find, 

 Need now no longer walk and dawdle, 

 Searching the shore in rain and wind. 



A surer way that saves all travel, 



And all fatigue to leg or eye, 

 And gets flint hatchets, from the gravel, 



Just like those sought for, is to buy ! " 



An excursion about this date with his usual com- 

 panion was made to the Isle of Sheppey, its main 

 object being the inspection of the London Clay cliffs 

 at Warden Point and a search at their base for fossils. 

 The drive from Sheerness by Minster, and keeping as 

 near as possible to the range of east coast cliffs, was a 

 relief in that sultry summer day after the close atmos- 

 phere of railway stations. The plan had been to put 

 up at Warden and scramble over the cliff down to the 

 beach at Warden Point. But before reaching it, our 

 Professor descried something amiss with the landscape. 

 He knew the ground so well that there could be no 

 mistake in his bearings. Entering a cottage, an in- 

 quiry was made as to what had become of the custom- 

 house " look-out," and of the churchyard, in the corner 

 of which the little building stood, and all of which he 

 remembered as being situated in the rear of the cottage. 



" Gone, sir," was the reply. " They are all gone." 



