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ORDINARY MEETING, April 1, 1884. 

 H. Cadman Jones, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 

 lowing Elections were announced : — 



Associates : — Rev. C. Beeby, M.A., Birmingham ; Rev. Canon W, 

 Daunt, M.A., Cork ; Rev. J. Iverach, M.A., Aberdeen ; Rev. W. H. Piatt, 

 D.D., LL.D., United States ; R. J. AVicksteed, B.A., LL.D., B.C.L., Canada. 



Hon. Local Secretakt. — Professor F. T. Bell, D.Sci. Belleville, Ontario. 



Also the presentation of the following works for the Library : — 

 " Proceedings of the Royal Society." From the iSnmc. 



"Earthquake Movements." From the Tokio University. 



" Graptolytes." By J. Postlethwaite, Esq. From the >S'cM/tc. 



' The Pharaohs and their People." By Miss Berkley. „ 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



THE PREHISTORIC FACTORY OF FLINT IMPLE- 

 MENTS AT SPIENNES. By the Rev. J. Magens 

 Mello, M.A., F.G-.S., Member of the Scientific Society 

 of Brussels, Local Secretary for Derbyshire of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, &c. 



IT is now a generally recognised fact that what has been 

 called the " Stone Age '' in this and in the adjoining 

 countries of North-Western Europe was a lengthened period 

 which was characterised by two well-marked periods, — one, 

 the first, in which the implements used by early man were 

 extremely rude, consisting chiefly of flints and other stones 

 roughly chipped into forms more or less serviceable, which 

 may have been used as axes, scrapers, knives, and hammers. 

 During the earliest stages of the period these were rough in 

 the extreme ; a few flakes struck off here and there from a 

 larger stone were considered sufficient to adapt it for various 

 purposes. There was no attempt whatever at finish. Imple- 

 ments of this type have been met with in the gravels of 

 certain rivers, and amongst the oldest deposits in bone caves. 

 At a later date the implements were somewhat more care- 

 fully fashioned, and amongst the relics of early man found in 

 caves in this and other countries, tools and weapons of stone 



