298 THE EEV. J. MAGENS MELLO, M.A.^ F.G.S., ETC., ON 



A note has been handed up to me without a name to it. It is 

 headed " from a visitor for the author to refer to if he sees fit." 

 It refers to an interesting fact. This gentleman says — " Would it 

 be interesting, in connection with the identification of races to 

 mention that the inhabitants of Brandon in Suffolk (to which 

 reference has been made) are supposed to be the direct descen- 

 dants of jDrimitive man, being a quite distinct race of people from 

 the Saxon or Normau ? They are short, swarthy, and black- 

 haired, but of which type of skull I cannot say. Some few years 

 ago the British Ethnological Society journeyed to Brandon and 

 photographed a typical group of this people." Brandon is one of 

 those places of extreme interest where the flint industry has been 

 carried on from Palgeolithic times down to the present day, and he 

 goes on to say that they still make a vast number of gun-flints for 

 the savage or semi-savage tribes of Africa. That is very interest- 

 ing — that they have there that dark, swarthy race which was 

 driven to the extreme west — so to find these people still pursuing 

 their industry, as this gentleman has jDointed out, is a matter of 

 very gi'eat interest. 



I fear I dare not toucli on the Aryan question. It would take 

 a very long time to enter at all into a discussion as to other 

 races. 



The meeting was then adjourned. 



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Sir J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., writes :— 



I thank you for sending me the Rev. Mr. Mello's paper on 

 Neolithic man, which I have read with much interest, and which 

 gives useful suggestions. 



I natui'ally object to "Palaeolithic" man being classed as 

 Pleistocene after all I have written to prove the contrary. This 

 may be a mere matter of classification, but it is misleading, unless 

 the term Pleistocene be extended to include the modern, in which 

 case we are still living in the Pleistocene period ; of which, indeed, 

 you have had some remains in a recent winter, in the hordage ice 



