904 EEPORT— 1893. 



6. On Early Uses of Flint in Polishing. By H. Stopes. 



The author exhibited and described a quantity of flints that had attained a 

 highly polished or gi-ooved surface from having; been used for pohshing. Several 

 of these had been elaborately shaped for use, and presented two or more smoothed 

 or polished facets. They were ordinary nodules, tabular flint, echini, shells or 

 fihell-casts filled with flint and broken or worn to a fine surface, &c. Many 

 of them have been polished neolithic axes, and have served as hammer stones and 

 other purposes as well as polishers. A great number are small spear-heads and 

 arrow-heads. In many cases they have been worn to a considerable degree. They 

 come from numerous places, but chiefly the Thames Valley, Kent. 



7. On Palceolithic Anchors, Anvils, Hammers, and Drills. By H. Stopes. 



The author pointed out the great importance of ascertaining the history of the 

 development of tools, as the increase of mental power was greatly secured by 

 improved skill in the manufacture and use of tools. The action was (and is) reflex. 

 The author defined tools as objects made and used intelligently for a specific 

 purpose, not missiles or other things used naturally, although it is not yet possible 

 to distinguish many of these objects. Many specimens of flint and other stones 

 ■were exhibited that bore traces of having been made and used as anchors, net weights, 

 ankers, &c., that were trimmed, round holes occurring naturally in the stone. The 

 use and fabrication of these, and also the wood and bone doubtless worked at the 

 earns time, led to the use of anvils, hammers, and drills, many of which were 

 ehown. Especial attention was drawn to one form of drill that, with a point and 

 cutting edges, strongly resembles modern steel augurs or centre-bits. All these 

 t«ols have been found at Northfleet, Kent, at the Milton Street pit, 100 feet above 

 O.D., excepting a few older ones from the higher plateau of Kent. These possess the 

 characteristic deep-red ferruginous tint, and are well worked and waterworn. 



8. Peport on Uniformity in the Spelling of Barlaric and Savage Languages 

 and Pace-names. — See Reports, p. 662. 



9. Interim Report on the North. We stern Tribes of the Dominion of Canada. 



See Reports, p. 653. 



