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represent bison and reindeer, and a good many are of horses. A 

 book of 176Q (Newbery's compendious history of the world) is 

 quoted as containing one of the earliest specific descriptions of a 

 Neolithic implement, a stone axe, found in this country. I 

 should have thought that there were earlier ones. Perhaps some 

 of our Members can refer me to one. In Egypt, that land of 

 unending archaeological discovery, it has been decided to make 

 an extensive dam at Assouan, which will increase the water 

 supply, but will submerge the temple of Philas and many other 

 important monuments of antiquity. It is proposed, therefore, 

 first to make a careful archaeological survey, and to do such 

 repairs and strengthening to buildings as may ensure their safety 

 before the dam is constructed. Two interesting tombs recently 

 brought to light are said to be those of two Queens, Tii and 

 Ta-Usert, though considerable doubt appears to attach to the 

 identification of the former. Queen Tii was the daughter of 

 Yuaa and Tuaa, whose tomb, found some time ago, contained 

 such remarkable treasures. In the present case the mummy of 

 the celebrated Queen had, it is supposed, been removed under a 

 subsequent dynasty from the place of her original burial about 

 1400 B.C. ; and the sepulchral furniture, as well as the mummy, 

 had suffered much from the disturbance. In the second case, 

 that of the tomb of Queen Ta-Usert, a quantity of beautiful gold 

 and silver jewellery was found in the tomb. An ancient die used 

 for coinage, of a date about 400 B.C., was some time ago placed 

 in the Athens Museum, and is an object of the greatest rarity. It 

 is made of very hard bronze. To turn to our own country, some 

 pigmy flint implements have been found at Bungay in Suffolk, 

 associated with a polished stone axe, which defines them as 

 Neolithic, and an interesting chariot burial has also been met 

 with at Hunmanby in Yorkshire. At the bottom of the grave 

 was a wooden shield covered with thin bronze plates. Portions 

 of the chariot, a bronze bit, and two teeth of a horse were 

 recovered. At the Pre-historic Congress held in France last 

 August, the orientation of megaliths for a set purpose was 

 generally accepted, and the work lately done in England in that 



