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the descendants of the palaeolithic men, who were driven, little by little, 

 to the north. These are the principal questions that have been put to me ; 

 but there is one other to which I would refer. I was asked whether I could 

 suggest how implements were used. We meet with some in the Swiss 

 lake dwellings, which used to be fastened to a fragment of deer horn. 

 The hollow part of the antler was made to hold the implement, and it was 

 sometimes bound to a wooden holder. Others would be bound by a 

 leathern thong, or by a fibre similar to that which the savages of Australia 

 and other places use to fasten their weapons to the holders. Some of the 

 scrapers found in the Swiss lake dwellings were inserted into horn holders, 

 one portion being pointed and unbroken, and the other, which was 

 intended for use, chipped and jagged. Some spear-shaped forms were 

 probably fastened in another way. Sir John Lubbock, in Prehistoric 

 Times, -figures a spear-head which is, I think, now in use among the 

 Australian tribes. It is bound to a long spear-handle. Also, in the Swiss 

 lake dwellings, we find implements simply mounted in a horn or bone 

 holder. They were just driven in and used, I suppose, as scrapers, though 

 probably a good many of them were like a schoolboy's knife, and used for 

 more purposes than one. (Applause.) 

 The meeting was then adjourned. 



