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The flint objects are generally discovered on the neolithic floor, found 
about 1,300 feet above sea-level, and covered with a layer of peat varying 
from 1 to 10 feet in thickness. They consist of knives, scrapers, arrow 
heads, spear tips, and very small implements, possibly for boring eyes in 
bone needles, all unpolished. 
The list has been extracted principally from the recently published 
‘History of Rochdale,’ by Lieut.-Col. Fishwick. 
Dr. H. C. Marsh has found fragments of hematite and graphite on 
_ Knoll Hill (one of the localities where flints have been discovered), 
which may have been used as pigments. 
Four years ago some tumuli at Worsthorn and Extwisle, near 
_ Burnley, were investigated, and a cinerary urn was disinterred from one 
of them. It is 12 inches in height and 104 inches in diameter, made of 
unbaked clay, and pre-Roman in character. The urn contained the 
_ charred remains of two bodies ; the only artificial object being a bronze 
pin. Dr. Marsh, who described the urn and its contents, considers that 
the interment took place during the Bronze Age. 
Your Committee request to be reappointed without a grant. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of General Pitt Rivers, Dr. 
Garson, and Mr. Bioxam, appointed for the purpose of 
Calculating the Anthropological Measurements taken at the 
Newcastle Meeting of the Association in 1889. (Drawn up by 
Dr. Garson, Secretary.) 
Tus Committee has to report that the arrangements made by the local 
committee for the Anthropometric Laboratory in connection with the 
Anthropological Section at Newcastle last year were most excellent. A 
arge and well-lighted room in the same building as the meeting-room 
f the Section was set apart for the laboratory, aud the services of aclerk 
were placed at the disposal of the sectional officers. By the kind permis- 
sion of Mr. Francis Galton, the services of the superintendent of 
his laboratory at South Kensington—Sergeant Randal—were again 
available to carry on the work of the laboratory, in conjunction with 
Mr. Bloxam and Dr. Garson. The new instruments mentioned in last 
report were used for the first time, and proved fairly satisfactory. 
With the prospect of an efficient number of instruments available for 
work in the laboratory, it was decided that the observations made should 
be of a somewhat more physical character than had been previously the 
ease, and that they should agree as much as possible with the system of 
ebservations instituted by Professor Topinard. As the number of hands 
in the laboratory was limited in proportion to the number of applicants 
to be measured, it was necessary to select the most important measure- 
ments, and those which could be made with the greatest amount of 
accuracy in the least possible space of time. On this account it was 
thought desirable to cut ont several observations previously made, par- 
ticularly amongst those relating to the efficiency of some of the organs of 
Sense, which required some time to test accurately. 
The list of observations was as follows :—sex, age, birthplace, occu- 
‘pation, colour of eyes and of hair, the height of body when standing with 
