224 REV. R. A. BULLEN, B.A.. ON EOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 
was the great submergence of the British Islands over the whole 
area, and when these gravel beds were deposited. 
The Cuatrman.—Before I ask the lecturer to reply [ would ask 
him if he has seen something which illustrates the deposit in the 
form of the large and varied collection of stone axes in the 
Antiquarian Museum of Stockholm. It is a remarkable collec- 
tion. I do not express an opinion as to their age; but they are 
contained in a room as large as this, with glass cupboards all 
round the walls and up to the ceiling. The colours are very 
remarkable, from a bright orange, brown, and yellow to white. 
It is a perfect study of beauty to see them, whatever opinions 
there may be as to their antiquity. 
Mr. Martin L. Rouss.—I think the lecturer stated, in regard 
to the colour of this deposit, that the chocolate colour indicated 
an immense period of weathering; but, as a fact, are not stones 
found in these gravels of all colours? In my garden I have been 
picking up silicious stones for some time past, and I have found 
them red right through, sometimes with black exteriors, and 
sometimes with yellow. I understood him to say that these axes 
were of such enormous age because they turned to that red colour ; 
but may they not have obtained that red colour from the banks ? 
I only put it as a question. Would he give us evidence for being 
pleistocene P 
The Rev. R. A. Buty, in reply, said: With regard to the 
pleistocene age of these implements, I thought I had carefully 
guarded myself against saying anything abcut “ pleistocene”’ or 
““pnliocene.” I said that the important point in regard to these 
implements was that Dr. Blackmore has found worked flints in 
gravel that came from the Hlephas meridionalis bed, Dewlish, Dorset, 
that pachyderm died out before the glacial age, and there is no 
evidence of its having existed into the glacial age. The only real 
evidence we have that man existed before the glacial age is from 
the Forest-Bed in the north of Norfolk, of which we know the 
geological age, and if we find man’s implements in connection 
with remains of Hlephas meridionalis, we say that man lived at 
the time of the Hlephas meridionalis. 
I cannot agree with Professor Orchard that there are any 
“hasty generalizations’ in my paper. They are simply state- 
ments of fact. 
Professor EK. Hutt, in reply to Mr. Rouse, explained that he 
